TITLE 41

INSURANCE

CHAPTER 20

GROUP LIFE INSURANCE

41-2007.  Trustee groups. The lives of a group of individuals may be insured under a policy issued to the trustees of a fund established in this state by two (2) or more employers in the same industry or to the trustees of a fund established by one (1) or more labor unions, or by one (1) or more employers and one (1) or more labor unions, which trustees shall be deemed the policyholder, to insure employees of the employers or members of the unions for the benefit of persons other than the employers or the unions, subject to the following requirements:

(1)  The persons eligible for insurance shall be all of the employees of the employers or all of the members of the unions, or all of any class or classes thereof determined by conditions pertaining to their employment, or to membership in the unions, or to both. The policy may provide that the term "employees" shall include retired employees, and the individual proprietor or partners if an employer is an individual proprietor or a partnership. No director of a corporate employer shall be eligible for insurance under the policy unless such person is otherwise eligible as a bona fide employee of the corporation by performing services other than the usual duties of a director. No individual proprietor or partner shall be eligible for insurance under the policy unless he is actively engaged in and devotes a substantial part of his time to the conduct of the business of the proprietor or partnership. The policy may provide that the term "employees" shall include the trustees, or their employees, or both, if their duties are principally connected with such trusteeship.

(2)  The premium for the policy shall be paid by the trustees from funds contributed by the employer or employers of the insured persons, or by the union or unions, or from funds contributed by the insured persons, or from any combination of these. A policy on which no part of the premium is to be derived from funds contributed by the insured persons specifically for their insurance must insure all eligible persons, or all except any as to whom evidence of individual insurability is not satisfactory to the insurer, or who have rejected the coverage in writing.

(3)  The policy shall not require that, if a participating employer discontinues membership in the association, the insurance of his employees shall cease solely by reason of such discontinuance.

History:

[41-2007, added 1961, ch. 330, sec. 472, p. 645; am. 1971, ch. 122, sec. 11, p. 408; am. 1974, ch. 196, sec. 1, p. 1504; am. 2004, ch. 256, sec. 3, p. 729.]