Current through Acts 2023-2024, ch. 1069
Section 56-3-501 - Separate accounts - Allocation(a)(1) Any domestic life insurance company may, subject to the approval of the commissioner, establish one (1) or more separate accounts and may allocate to the separate account or accounts any amounts paid to the company, including, but not limited to, proceeds applied under optional modes of settlement or under dividend options, which are to be applied to the terms of an individual or group contract issued in connection therewith to fund pension or profit-sharing plans or to provide life insurance or annuity benefits, and benefits incidental to the life insurance or annuities, payable in fixed or in variable amounts, or in both.(2) If and to the extent so provided under the applicable contracts, the assets of the separate account shall not be chargeable with liabilities arising out of any other business the company may conduct.(b) The company may provide for the owners of the contracts voting rights with respect to management of the separate accounts and investment of the assets of the accounts, and shall have the power to do all things necessary under any applicable state or federal law in order that the contracts may be lawfully sold or offered for sale.(c) This section shall not in any way affect existing laws pertaining to the voting rights of the company's policyholders.Acts 1967, ch. 353, § 1; T.C.A., § 56-258; Acts 1968, ch. 450, § 1; 1970, ch. 493, § 1; T.C.A., § 56-312; Acts 1993, ch. 253, § 20.