ORS 748.403
Standards of valuation for certificates

(1)

Standards of valuation for certificates issued prior to January 1, 1989, shall be those provided by the laws applicable immediately prior to January 1, 1988.

(2)

The minimum standards of valuation for certificates issued on or after January 1, 1989, shall be based on the following tables:

(a)

For certificates of life insurance, the Commissioner’s 1941 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, the Commissioner’s 1941 Standard Industrial Mortality Table, the Commissioner’s 1958 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, the Commissioner’s 1980 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table or any more recent table made applicable to life insurers; or

(b)

For annuity and pure endowment certificates, for total and permanent disability benefits, for accidental death benefits and for noncancelable accident and health benefits, the tables that are authorized for use by life insurers in this state.

(3)

The tables referred to in subsection (2) of this section shall be under valuation methods and standards, including interest assumptions, in accordance with the laws of this state applicable to life insurers issuing policies containing like benefits.

(4)

The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services may accept other standards for valuation if the director finds that the reserves produced will not be less in the aggregate than reserves computed in accordance with the minimum valuation standard prescribed in subsection (2) of this section. The director may vary the standards of mortality applicable to all benefit contracts on substandard lives or other extra hazardous lives by any society authorized to do business in this state.

(5)

Any society, with the consent of the director of insurance of the state of domicile of the society and under conditions the director may impose, may establish and maintain reserves on its certificates in excess of the reserves required, but the contractual rights of any benefit member shall not be affected. [1987 c.490 §26; 2005 c.22 §499]

Source: Section 748.403 — Standards of valuation for certificates, https://www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/bills_laws/ors/ors748.­html.

748.103
Definitions 748.106
Description of fraternal benefit society 748.109
Conditions constituting “operating on a lodge system.” 748.112
Conditions constituting “representative form of government.” 748.121
Purposes, operation and powers 748.123
Membership 748.130
Principal office 748.133
Formation 748.136
Officers, governors, directors 748.139
Waiver of provisions by subordinate body 748.142
Amendment of society laws 748.144
Creation and operation of other organizations and entities 748.148
Consolidation and merger 748.171
Certificate of authority 748.174
Certificate of authority for foreign or alien society 748.177
Authorization as mutual life insurance company 748.181
Insurance producers 748.184
Reinsurance 748.201
Benefits 748.204
Beneficiaries 748.207
Benefits exempt from execution 748.211
Benefit contract 748.306
Authority for group benefit certificates 748.309
Group membership 748.312
Membership in lodges organized under ORS 748.309 748.316
Payments for group benefits 748.319
Group certificates issued by foreign or alien society or by domestic society in foreign or alien jurisdiction 748.322
Continuation of membership in society after cancellation, discontinuance or nonrenewal of group certificate 748.401
Value of benefit and amount of options 748.403
Standards of valuation for certificates 748.406
Financial statement 748.409
Assets of society 748.412
Investment of funds 748.414
Funds exempt from certain taxes 748.501
Examination 748.503
Investigation of society 748.506
Investigation of foreign or alien society 748.509
Validity of petition for injunction 748.601
Exemptions from chapter 748.603
Relationship to other insurance laws 748.605
Insurance against risk of loss under less than fully insured employee health benefit plan 748.990
Penalties
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§ 748.403’s source at oregon​.gov