A. Standards of valuation for certificates issued prior to one year after the effective date of this act shall be those provided by the laws applicable immediately prior to the effective date of this act.

B. The minimum standards of valuation for certificates issued on or after one year from the effective date of this act shall be based on the following tables:

(1) for certificates of life insurance, the commissioner's 1941 standard ordinary mortality table, the commissioner's 1941 standard industrial mortality table, the commissioner's 1958 standard ordinary mortality table, the commissioner's 1980 standard ordinary mortality table or any more recent table made applicable to life insurers; and

(2) for annuity and pure endowment certificates, for total and permanent disability benefits, for accidental death benefits and for noncancelable accident and health benefits, such tables as are authorized for use by life insurers in this state.

Paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection shall be under valuation methods and standards, including interest assumptions, in accordance with the laws of this state applicable to life insurers issuing policies containing like benefits.

C. The superintendent may in his discretion accept other standards for valuation if the superintendent finds that the reserves produced thereby will not be less in the aggregate than reserves computed in accordance with the minimum valuation standard herein prescribed. The superintendent may in his discretion vary the standards of mortality applicable to all benefit contracts on substandard lives or other extrahazardous lives by any society authorized to do business in this state.

D. Any society, with the consent of the superintendent of the state of domicile of the society, and under such conditions, if any, which the superintendent may impose, may establish and maintain reserves on its certificates in excess of the reserves required thereunder, but the contractual rights of any benefit member shall not be affected thereby.

History: 1978 Comp., § 59A-44-25, enacted by Laws 1989, ch. 388, § 25.

Repeals and reenactments. — Laws 1989, ch. 388, § 25, repealed 59A-44-25 NMSA 1978, as enacted by Laws 1984, ch. 127, § 810, relating to admission of foreign or alien societies, and enacted a new section, effective January 1, 1990.

Compiler's notes. — The phrase "effective date of this act", referred to throughout Subsections A and B, means January 1, 1990, the effective date of Laws 1989, ch. 388.