Code of Maryland Regulations
Title 31 - MARYLAND INSURANCE ADMINISTRATION
Subtitle 09 - LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES
Chapter 31.09.09 - Life Insurance Illustrations
Section 31.09.09.03 - Definitions

(1) "Actuarial Standards Board" means the board established by the American Academy of Actuaries to develop and promulgate standards of actuarial practice.

(2) "Basic illustration" means a ledger or proposal used in the sale of a life insurance policy that shows both guaranteed and nonguaranteed elements.

(3) "Contract premium" means the gross premium that is required to be paid under a fixed premium policy, including the premium for a rider for which benefits are shown in the illustration.

(4) "Currently payable scale" means a scale on nonguaranteed elements in effect for a policy form as of the preparation date of the illustration or declared to become effective within the next 95 days.

(5) Disciplined Current Scale.

(6) "Generic name" means a short title descriptive of the policy being illustrated such as whole life, term life, or flexible premium adjustable life.

(7) "Guaranteed elements" means the premiums, benefits, values, credits, or charges under a policy of life insurance that are guaranteed and determined at issue.

(8) "Illustrated scale" means a scale on nonguaranteed elements, as defined in §B(14) of this regulation, currently being illustrated that is not more favorable to the policy owner than the lesser of the:

(9) "Illustration" means a presentation or depiction that includes nonguaranteed elements of a policy of life insurance over a period of years and that is one of the following three types:

(10) "Illustration actuary" means an actuary meeting the requirements of Regulation .11 of this chapter who certifies to illustrations based on the standard of practice promulgated by the Actuarial Standards Board.

(11) "In force illustration" means an illustration furnished at any time after the policy that it depicts has been in force for 1 year or more.

(12) "Lapse-supported illustration" means an illustration of a policy form failing the test of self-supporting as defined in §B(18) of this regulation under a modified persistency rate assumption using persistency rates underlying the disciplined current scale for the first 5 years and 100 percent policy persistent after that.

(13) "Minimum assumed expenses" means the minimum expenses that may be used in the calculation of the disciplined current scale for a policy form.

(14) "Nonguaranteed elements" means the premiums, benefits, values, credits, or charges under a policy of life insurance that are not guaranteed or not determined at issue.

(15) "Non-term group life" means a group policy or individual policies of life insurance issued to members of an employer group or other permitted group when:

(16) "Policy owner" means the owner named in the policy or the certificate holder in the case of a group policy.

(17) "Premium outlay" means the amount of out-of-pocket premium assumed to be paid by the policy owner or other premium payer.

(18) "Self-supporting illustration" means an illustration of a policy form for which it can be demonstrated that, when using experience assumptions underlying the disciplined current scale, for all illustrated points in time on or after the 15th policy anniversary or the 20th policy anniversary for second-or-later-to-die policies (or upon policy expiration, if sooner), the accumulated value of all policy cash flows equals or exceeds the total policy owner value available. For this purpose, policy owner value includes cash surrender values and any other illustrated benefit amounts available at the policy owner's election.

(19) "Supplemental illustration" means an illustration furnished in addition to a basic illustration that meets the applicable requirements of this chapter, and that may be presented in a format differing from the basic illustration, but may only depict a scale of nonguaranteed elements that is permitted in a basic illustration.