26-17-116. Payment of benefits.
(a) Any sum due by reason of the death of the person insured is payable to the beneficiary designated by the person insured, except that if the policy refers to family status and does not specify family members by name, the beneficiary may be the family member specified by status in the policy, subject to:
(i) The provisions of the policy as to all or any part of the sum in case there is no designated beneficiary living at the time of the insured's death; and
(ii) Any right the insurer reserved in the policy and set forth in the certificate to pay at its option a part of the sum not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) to any person appearing to the insurer to be equitably entitled thereto by reason of having incurred funeral or other expenses incident to the last illness or death of the person insured.
(b) Payment of benefits shall be subject to the interest provisions of W.S. 26-16-112 and time requirements of W.S. 26-15-124, provided the interest provisions of W.S. 26-16-112 shall not apply to variable contracts which provide for insurance or annuity benefits which may vary according to the investment experience of any separate account or accounts maintained by the insurer as to such contract.
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