Except as otherwise provided in Section 10489.4, such valuation shall be certified by a competent actuary or, at the expense of the society, verified by the actuary of the insurance supervisory official of the state of domicile of the society, and the legal minimum standard of valuation shall be as follows:

(a) All benefits promised by certificates issued prior to September 22, 1952, and the rates therefor shall be valued in accordance with the provisions of law applicable thereto as of the date of issuance, but not lower than the standards and interest assumptions used in the calculation of rates for such benefits.

(b) The minimum standard for the valuation of all certificates issued after September 21, 1952, and prior to January 1, 1972, shall be 3 percent per annum interest; in the case of certificates issued on and after January 1, 1972, and prior to January 1, 1980, the minimum standard for the valuation of all such certificates shall be 4 percent per annum interest; and in the case of certificates issued on and after January 1, 1980, the minimum standard for the valuation of all single premium certificates shall be 51/2 percent per annum interest and for the valuation of all other such certificates shall be 41/2 percent per annum interest, and the following tables:

(1) For all ordinary certificates of life insurance issued on the standard basis, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in such certificates—the American Men Ultimate Table of Mortality, with Bowerman’s or Davis’ Extension thereof, or, at the option of the society, the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table or the Commissioners 1958 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, using actual age of the insured for male risks and an age not more than six years younger than the actual age of the insured for female risks, and for such policies issued on or after the operative date of Section 10163.2 (i) the Commissioners 1980 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, or (ii) at the election of the company for any one or more specified plans of life insurance, the Commissioners 1980 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table with Ten-Year Select Mortality Factors, or (iii) any ordinary mortality table, adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, or its successor, that is approved by regulation promulgated or bulletin issued by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such policies.

(2) For all industrial life insurance certificates issued on the standard basis, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in such certificates—the 1941 Standard Industrial Mortality Table, for such certificates issued prior to the operative date of Section 10163.2, and for such policies issued on or after such operative date, the Commissioners 1961 Standard Industrial Mortality Table or any industrial mortality table, adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, or its successor, that is approved by regulation promulgated or bulletin issued by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such policies.

(3) For annuity and pure endowment certificates, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in such certificates—the 1937 Standard Annuity Mortality Table, or the Annuity Mortality Table for 1949 Ultimate, or the Individual Annuity Mortality Table for 1971, or any individual annuity mortality table, adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, or its successor, that is approved by regulation promulgated or bulletin issued by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such contracts, or any modification of any of these tables approved by the commissioner.

(4) For disability benefits in or supplementary to ordinary certificates—Hunter’s Disability Table or the Class 3 Disability Table (1926), modified to conform to the contractual waiting period, or the tables of Period 2 disablement rates and the 1930 to 1950 termination rates of the 1952 Disability Study of the Society of Actuaries with due regard to the type of benefit, or the 1964 Commissioners Disability Table, or any tables of disablement rates and termination rates, adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, or its successor, that are approved by regulation promulgated or bulletin issued by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such policies. Any such table shall, for active lives, be combined with a mortality table permitted for calculating the reserves for life insurance certificates.

(5) For accidental death benefits in or supplementary to certificates—The Inter-Company Double Indemnity Mortality Table or the 1959 Accidental Death Benefits Table, or any accidental death benefits table, adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, or its successor, that is approved by regulation promulgated or bulletin issued by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such policies. Any such table shall be combined with a mortality table permitted for calculating the reserves for life insurance certificates.

(6) For temporary accident and health benefits in or supplementary to certificates—Class 3 Disability Table (1926) with Conference Modifications or the 1964 Commissioners Disability Table, or any tables of disablement rates and termination rates, adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, or its successor, that are approved by regulation promulgated or bulletin issued by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such policies.

(7) For life insurance issued upon the substandard basis and other special benefits—such tables as may be approved by the commissioner.

(c) The commissioner may, in his discretion, accept other standards for valuation if he finds that the reserves produced thereby will not be less in the aggregate than reserves computed in accordance with the minimum valuation standard prescribed. Whenever the mortality experience under the certificates valued on the same mortality table is in excess of the expected mortality according to such table for a period of three consecutive years, the commissioner may require additional reserves when in his judgment deemed necessary on account of such certificates.

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions (a) and (b), any society, with the consent of the insurance supervisory official of the state of domicile of the society, and under such conditions, if any, which he may impose, may establish and maintain reserves on its certificates in excess of the reserves required thereunder, but the contractual rights of any insured member shall not be affected thereby.

(Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 234, Sec. 12. (AB 299) Effective January 1, 2010.)