RS 22:754

§754. Dividends; payments limited when reserve deficient A. Payments in the form of dividends or otherwise shall not be made to its stockholders by any domestic life insurer, unless its assets exceed, to the amount of such payment, the amount of its paid-up capital stock and all its liabilities, including its reinsurance reserves, computed upon a basis provided in R.S. 22:753, and no payments shall be made to the policyholders of any such insurer, except for matured claims, and in the purchase of surrendered policies, unless its assets exceed to the amount of such payments, its liabilities, including its reinsurance reserves, computed as hereinabove provided. B. However, in the case of any insurer availing itself of the reduction in the reserves allowed in R.S. 22:751 on funeral or cash policies, no payments shall be made to its stockholders in the form of dividends or otherwise, unless and until the reserve is equal to seventy-five per cent on funeral policies and one hundred per cent on the cash policies and that portion of combination policies providing for cash benefits, of the full reserve as computed in accordance with Subsections A, B, C, and D of R.S. 22:751. Acts 1958, No. 125; Redesignated from R.S. 22:164 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2009, No. 503, §1. NOTE: Former R.S. 22:754 redesignated as R.S. 22:2033 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.