{"data":{"id":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-33-13c-17","jurisdiction":"us-wv","citation":"W. Va. Code § 33-13C-17","heading":"Authority to promulgate rules.","body":"The commissioner shall have the authority to promulgate legislative rules, including emergency rules, implementing this article, pursuant to article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code. Such rules may include standards for evaluating reasonableness of payments under viatical settlement contracts for persons who are terminally or chronically ill; regulation of discount rates used to determine the amount paid in exchange for assignment, transfer, sale, devise or bequest of a benefit under a life insurance policy insuring the life of a person that is chronically or terminally ill; and provisions governing the relationship and responsibilities of both insurers and viatical settlement providers and viatical settlement brokers during the viatication of a life insurance policy or certificate.","path":["CHAPTER 33. INSURANCE.","ARTICLE 13C. VIATICAL SETTLEMENTS ACT."],"source_url":"https://code.wvlegislature.gov/33-13C-17/","current_through":"as of 2026-08-03; contains at least the enactments of the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T00:28:29Z","sha256":"1e975e9efd703b05d7ee38c250c578b5c736592d70c27b272fd0e46a648f1ccc","source_id":"us-wv","stale":true,"prev":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-33-13c-16","next":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-33-13c-18"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}