No provision in this chapter or in any other law shall be interpreted so as to prohibit a person whose life is insured under any policy of group life insurance from making an assignment of all or any part of his incidents of ownership under such policy including specifically, but not by way of limitation, any right to designate a beneficiary or beneficiaries thereunder and any right to have an individual policy issued to him in accordance with sections sixteen and seventeen of this article. Subject to the terms of the policy relating to assignment of incidents of ownership thereunder, such an assignment by the insured, made either before or after the effective date of this section, is valid for the purpose of vesting in the assignee, in accordance with any provisions included therein as to the time at which it is to be effective, all of such incidents of ownership so assigned, but without prejudice to the insurer on account of any payment it may make or individual policy it may issue in accordance with other provisions of this article prior to receipt of notice of the assignment.
W. Va. Code § 33-14-28