4218 - When Actual Premium Is Less Than Net Premium; Minimum Reserve.

NY Ins L § 4218 (2019) (N/A)
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(2) This section shall not authorize any such company to issue any policy or contract in violation of any other provision of this chapter.

(b) (1) In the case of any life insurance policy issued on or after January first, nineteen hundred eighty-six, for which the actual premium in the first policy year exceeds that of the second year and for which no comparable additional benefit is provided in the first year for such excess and which provides an endowment benefit or a cash surrender value or a combination thereof in an amount greater than such excess premium, the foregoing provisions of subsection (a) hereof shall be applied as if the method actually used in calculating the reserve for such policy were the method described in paragraph six of subsection (c) of section four thousand two hundred seventeen of this article, ignoring the proviso of such paragraph.

(2) The minimum reserve at each policy anniversary of such a policy shall be the greater of the minimum reserve calculated in accordance with paragraph six of subsection (c) of section four thousand two hundred seventeen of this article, including the proviso of that paragraph, and the minimum reserve calculated in accordance with this section.