PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 1116, 1781 PRINTER'S NO. 2503
No. 981 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY MICHLOVIC, MELIO, TIGUE, GAMBLE, CAWLEY, FLICK,
BORTNER, JOHNSON, D. W. SNYDER, McVERRY, J. TAYLOR, ROBINSON,
YANDRISEVITS, KUKOVICH, VEON, MORRIS, PRESTON, HALUSKA,
PISTELLA, TRELLO, COLAFELLA, GEIST, VAN HORNE, BUNT, BISHOP,
LASHINGER, McCALL, BELARDI, RYBAK, OLASZ, GIGLIOTTI, CORRIGAN
AND SEMMEL, APRIL 4, 1989
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
OCTOBER 3, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of May 11, 1949 (P.L.1210, No.367), entitled
2 "An act relating to group life insurance; describing
3 permitted policies and restrictions thereon, the premium
4 basis thereof and rights thereunder; limiting the amount of
5 such insurance; prescribing standard policy provisions; and
6 requiring notice of conversion privileges," further providing
7 for policies issued to creditors.
8 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
9 hereby enacts as follows:
10 Section 1. Section 3 of the act of May 11, 1949 (P.L.1210,
11 No.367), referred to as the Group Life Insurance Policy Law,
12 amended November 26, 1978 (P.L.1240, No.293), is amended to
13 read:
14 Section 3. Policies Issued to Creditors.--A policy issued to
15 a creditor to insure debtors of the creditor shall be subject to
16 the following requirements:
17 (1) The debtors eligible for insurance under the policy
18 shall be all of the debtors of the creditor whose indebtedness
1 is repayable in instalments, or all of any class or classes
2 thereof determined by conditions pertaining to the indebtedness
3 or to the purchase giving rise to the indebtedness. The policy
4 may provide that the term "debtors" shall include the debtors of
5 one or more subsidiary corporations, and the debtors of one or
6 more affiliated corporations, proprietors or partnerships if the
7 business of the policyholder and of such affiliated
8 corporations, proprietors or partnerships is under common
9 control through stock ownership, contract, or otherwise.
10 (2) The premium for the policy shall be paid by the
11 policyholder, either from the creditor's funds, or from charges
12 collected from the insured debtors, or from both. A policy on
13 which part or all of the premium is to be derived from the
14 collection from the insured debtors of identifiable charges not
15 required of uninsured debtors shall not include, in the class or
16 classes of debtors eligible for insurance, debtors under
17 obligations outstanding at its date of issue without evidence of
18 individual insurability unless at least seventy-five per cent of
19 the then eligible debtors elect to pay the required charges. A
20 policy on which no part of the premium is to be derived from the
21 collection of such identifiable charges must insure all eligible
22 debtors, or all except any as to whom evidence of individual
23 insurability is not satisfactory to the insurer.
24 (3) The policy may be issued only if the group of eligible
25 debtors is then receiving new entrants at the rate of at least
26 one hundred persons yearly, or may reasonably be expected to
27 receive at least one hundred new entrants during the first
28 policy year, and only if the policy reserves to the insurer the
29 right to require evidence of individual insurability if less
30 than seventy-five per cent of the new entrants become insured.
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1 (4) The amount of insurance on the life of any debtor shall
2 at no time exceed the amount owed by him which is repayable in
3 instalments to the creditor, or [sixty thousand dollars
4 ($60,000)] seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000), ONE HUNDRED <--
5 THOUSAND DOLLARS ($100,000), whichever is less.
6 (5) The insurance shall be payable to the policyholder. Such
7 payment shall reduce or extinguish the unpaid indebtedness of
8 the debtor to the extent of such payment.
9 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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