17B:29-4 - Amount of credit life insurance and credit health insurance

17B:29-4.  Amount of credit life insurance and credit health insurance
    a.  Credit Life Insurance

    (1) The initial amount of credit life insurance shall not exceed the total amount repayable under the contract of indebtedness and, where an indebtedness is repayable in substantially equal installments, the amount of insurance shall  at no time exceed the scheduled or actual amount of unpaid indebtedness,  whichever is greater.

    (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of the above paragraph, insurance on agricultural credit transaction commitments, not exceeding 18 months in duration, may be written up to the amount of the loan commitment, on a nondecreasing or level term plan.

    (3) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph a. (1) of this or any other  subsection, insurance on educational credit transaction commitments may be  written for the amount of the portion of such commitment that has not been advanced by the creditor.

    b.  Credit Health Insurance

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

     L.1971, c. 144, s. 17B:29-4.