§431:10D-404 - General requirements and prohibitions.
[§431:10D-404] General requirements andprohibitions. (a) An illustration used in the sale of a life insurancepolicy shall satisfy the applicable requirements of this part, be clearlylabeled "life insurance illustration", and contain the following basicinformation:
(1) Name of insurer;
(2) Name and business address of producer andinsurer's authorized representative, if any;
(3) Name, age, and sex of proposed insured, exceptwhere a composite illustration is permitted under this part;
(4) Underwriting or rating classification upon whichthe illustration is based;
(5) Generic name of policy, the company product name,if different, and form number;
(6) Initial death benefit; and
(7) Dividend option election or application ofnon-guaranteed elements, if applicable.
(b) When using an illustration in the sale ofa life insurance policy, an insurer, its producers, or other authorizedrepresentatives shall not:
(1) Represent the policy as anything other than alife insurance policy;
(2) Use or describe nonguaranteed elements in amanner that is misleading or has the capacity or tendency to mislead;
(3) State or imply that the payment or amount ofnonguaranteed elements is guaranteed;
(4) Use an illustration that does not comply with therequirements of this part;
(5) Use an illustration that at any policy durationdepicts policy performance more favorable to the policy owner than thatproduced by the illustrated scale of the insurer whose policy is beingillustrated;
(6) Provide an applicant with an incompleteillustration;
(7) Represent in any way that premium payments willnot be required for each year of the policy in order to maintain theillustrated death benefits, unless that is a fact;
(8) Use the term "vanish" or"vanishing premium", or a similar term that implies the policybecomes paid up, to describe a plan for using nonguaranteed elements to pay aportion of future premiums;
(9) Except for policies that can never developnonforfeiture values, use an illustration that is lapse-supported; or
(10) Use an illustration that is not self-supporting.
(c) If an interest rate used to determine theillustrated nonguaranteed elements is shown, it shall not be greater than theearned interest rate underlying the disciplined current scale. [L 2000, c 252,pt of §2]