To ensure the security of the parties and the clarity of the contract, life insurance contracts and capitalisation contracts must include clauses defining the purpose of the contract and the respective obligations of the parties, in accordance with the terms set out in a decree issued by the Conseil d’Etat.
The contract specifies the conditions for the allocation of technical and financial profits.
Insurance contracts with surrender values and life insurance contracts without surrender values whose beneficiaries are natural persons specify the conditions under which, in the event of death, the guaranteed capital is revalued from the date of the policyholder’s death until receipt of the documents referred to in article L. 132-23-1 or, where applicable, until the capital is deposited with the Caisse des dépôts et consignations in accordance with article L. 132-27-2. Charges levied after the date of knowledge of the death are capped under conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat. The insurer may not deduct charges for fulfilling its research and information obligations.
For life insurance policies with no surrender or transfer value whose beneficiaries are natural persons and for policies with a surrender or transfer value, the revaluation, referred to in the third paragraph of this article, of the part of the capital guaranteed in the event of death whose value in euros has been determined may not be less than a rate set by decree by the Conseil d’Etat.