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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".06" citation="COMAR 31.09.09.06" title_num="31" subtitle_num="09" chapter_num="09" heading="General Rules and Prohibitions.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>An illustration used in the sale of a life insurance policy shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Satisfy the applicable requirements of this chapter;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Be clearly labeled “life insurance illustration”; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Contain the following basic information:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Name of insurer,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Name and business address of the producer or insurer's authorized representative, if any,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Name, age, and sex of the proposed insured, except where a composite illustration is permitted under this chapter,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Underwriting or rating classification upon which the illustration is based,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Generic name of the policy, the company product name, if different, and the form number,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Initial death benefit, and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>Dividend option election or application of nonguaranteed elements, if applicable.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>When using an illustration in the sale of a life insurance policy, an insurer or its producers, or other authorized representatives may not:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Represent the policy as anything other than a life insurance policy;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Use or describe nonguaranteed elements in a manner that is misleading or has the capacity or tendency to mislead;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>State or imply that the payment or amount of nonguaranteed elements is guaranteed;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Use an illustration that does not comply with the requirements of this chapter;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Use an illustration that at any policy duration depicts policy performance more favorable to the policy owner than that produced by the illustrated scale of the insurer whose policy is being illustrated;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Provide an applicant with an incomplete illustration;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Represent in any way that premium payments are not required for each year of the policy in order to maintain the illustrated death benefits, unless that is the fact;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Use the term “vanish” or “vanishing premium”, or a similar term that implies the policy becomes paid up, to describe a plan for using nonguaranteed elements to pay a portion of future premiums;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>Use an illustration that is lapse supported, except for policies than can never develop nonforfeiture values; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>Use an illustration that is not self-supporting.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>If an interest rate used to determine the illustrated nonguaranteed elements is shown, it may not be greater than the earned interest rate underlying the disciplined current scale.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>The insurer may choose to designate each year the method of determining assumed expenses for all policy forms from the following:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Fully allocated expenses;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Marginal expenses; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>A generally recognized expense table based on fully allocated expenses representing a significant portion of insurance companies and approved by the Commissioner.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Marginal expenses may be used only if greater than a generally recognized expense table. If no generally recognized expense table is approved, fully allocated expenses shall be used.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>