Premiums and Benefits - How Universal Life Works - Concept

  • Broken down to its simplest basis, Universal Life has eliminated the concept of "plan of insurance"..... 

-- Christian J. DesRochers

1983 - SOA - Universal Life, Society of Actuaries - 24p

  • In fact, it is accurate to describe Universal Life as a generalized version of the actuarial formulas underlying traditional life insurance products.
  • In other words, it is possible to produce any traditional plan of insurance from the generalized formulas underlying universal life.  p448

--  Alan Richards, president and chief executive officer of E. F. Hutton Life Insurance Co.

1983 0510, 0511 and 0728 - GOV (House) - Tax Treatment of Life Insurance - [PDF-991p-GooglePlay,

  • Universal Life
    • Unlike adjustable life, where a current plan is defined, but is subject to change, a universal life policy at any time has only a "minimum" and a "maximum' plan....
    • The adoption in 1983 of the Model Regulation for Universal Life provided recognition that these policies could be configured as whole life policies.  (p662)

1989-1, NAIC Proceedings