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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 33. INSURANCE · Chapter 31. CREDIT LIFE INSURANCE AND CREDIT ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE

33-31-4. Amount of insurance.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    The amount of credit life insurance shall not exceed the indebtedness. Where indebtedness repayable in substantially equal installments is secured by an individual policy of credit life insurance, the amount of insurance shall not exceed the approximate unpaid indebtedness on the date of death and, where secured by a group policy of credit life insurance, shall not exceed the exact amount of unpaid indebtedness on that date.#

  2. (b)

    The amount of indemnity payable by credit accident and sickness insurance in the event of disability, as defined in the policy, shall not exceed the aggregate of the periodic scheduled unpaid installments of indebtedness; and the amount of each periodic indemnity payment shall not exceed the original indebtedness divided by the number of periodic installments.#

  3. (c)

    The limitations set forth in subsections (a) and (b) of this Code section shall not apply to insurance regulated under Chapter 3 of Title 7 as to loans made under that chapter.#

  4. (d)

    Notwithstanding this Code section, credit life insurance in connection with agricultural loans not exceeding five years may be written up to the amount of the loan or loan commitment on the nondecreasing or level term plan.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 56-3304, enacted by Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1.

Law reviews

For article discussing methods of computation of finance charges in Georgia consumer credit contracts, see 30 Mercer L. Rev. 281 (1978).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t33-ch23-65-(v25)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V25, 2020 edition, pages 608 to 609; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 1cdfeaa4b73e.