Definition: Life-insurance enterprises

Category: Insurance services

Life insurance enterprises take up and pursue the self-employed activity of direct insurance covering the following risks of insurance where they are on a contractual basis: life assurance, assurance on survival to a stipulated age only, assurance on death only, marriage assurance, birth assurance, etc. annuities, supplementary insurance, permanent health insurance or in the following operations when they are on a contractual basis: tontines, capital redemption operations, management of group pension funds, etc.
Source:
European Union, First Council Directive 79/267/EEC of 5 March 1979 on the coordination of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the taking up and pursuit of the business of direct life assurance (Official Journal of the European Communities No L 63, 13/03/1979, p. 1), Article 1
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