RS 22:902: Statutory life insurance beneficiaries

Notwithstanding any other law or regulation to the contrary, any religious, educational, eleemosynary, charitable, or benevolent institution or undertaking may be named beneficiary in or owner of any policy of life insurance issued by any life insurance company upon the life of any individual. The beneficiaries or owners named shall have an insurable interest for the full face of the policy and shall be entitled to collect same. On all policies of life insurance issued before August 21, 1992, by insurers in which any of the named beneficiaries or owners shall have been designated beneficiaries in the policies, the beneficiaries shall have an insurable interest to the full extent of the face of the policy and be entitled to collect same, without penalty or deduction.