(1) Each insurer shall maintain at its home office or
principal office, a complete file containing one copy of each document
authorized by the insurer for use pursuant to this sub-chapter. Such file
shall contain one copy of each authorized form for a period of three years
following the date of its last authorized use.
(2) An
agent shall inform the prospective purchaser, prior to commencing a life
insurance sales presentation, that he is acting as a life insurance agent and
inform the prospective purchaser of the full name of the insurance company
which he is representing to the buyer. In sales situations in which an agent is
not involved, the insurer shall indentify its full name.
(3) Terms such as financial planner, investment advisor, financial consultant, or
financial counseling shall not be used in such a way as to imply that the
insurance agent is generally engaged in an advisory business in which
compensation is unrelated to sales unless such is actually the case.
(4) Any
reference to policy dividends must include a statement that dividends are not
guaranteed.
(5) A
system or presentation which does not recognize the time value of money through
the use of appropriate interest adjustments shall not be used for comparing
the cost of two or more life insurance policies. Such a system may be used for
the purpose of demonstrating the cash-flow pattern of a policy if such
presentation is accompanied by a statement disclosing that the presentation
does not recognize that, because of interest, a dollar in the future has less
value than a dollar today.
(6) A
presentation of benefits shall not display guaranteed and non-guaranteed
benefits as a single sum unless they are shown separately in close proximity
thereto.
(7) A
statement regarding the use of the life insurance cost indexes shall include an
explanation to the effect that the indexes are useful only for the comparison
of the relative costs of two or more similar policies.
(8) A
life insurance cost index which reflects dividends or an equivalent level
annual dividend shall be accompanied by a statement that it is based on the
company's current dividend scale and is not guaranteed.
(9) For the purposes of this sub-chapter,
the annual pre-
mium for
a basic policy or rider, fox which the company reserves the right to change the
premium, shall be the maximum annual premium.