N.Y. Insurance Law Section 4212
Stock life insurance companies

  • voting power of policyholders

(a)

(1) Any domestic stock life insurance company may, by amendment to its charter, confer upon its policyholders, or upon such of its policyholders as shall have a specified amount of insurance on their lives, the right to vote for all or any less number of directors of such company in a manner not inconsistent with this chapter.

(2)

Such amendment shall take effect upon approval by the superintendent. The superintendent may give such approval if he finds that the proposed change is in conformity with the requirements of law and that the representation of policyholders therein conferred is equitable and reasonable.

(3)

If the right to vote for all of the directors of such company is conferred upon such policyholders, then the election of directors shall thereafter be governed by the provisions of subsection (e) of § 4210 (Election of directors of domestic mutual life insurance companies)section four thousand two hundred ten of this article.

(b)

This section shall not apply to any such company which has conferred voting power upon policyholders pursuant to any previous law effective before January first, nineteen hundred forty, but the voting rights of such policyholders shall continue to be governed by such previous law.

Source: Section 4212 — Stock life insurance companies; voting power of policyholders, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/ISC/4212 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jan. 10, 2026).

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Transfer of shares of domestic life insurance company 4204
Financial requirements for the organization of stock accident and health insurance companies and stock legal services insurance companies 4205
Life, accident and health, and legal services insurance companies 4206
Deposits by life, accident and health, and legal services insurance companies 4207
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Election of directors of domestic mutual life insurance companies 4211
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Stock life insurance companies 4213
Industrial life insurance 4214
Industrial accident and industrial health insurance 4215
Contracts with industrial life insurance agents 4216
Group life insurance 4217
Valuation of insurance policies and contracts 4218
When actual premium is less than net premium 4219
Limitation on accumulation of surplus of life insurance companies 4220
Life insurance and annuities 4221
Standard nonforfeiture law 4222
Policy loans 4223
Standard nonforfeiture law for annuities 4224
Life, accident and health insurance 4225
Domestic life insurance companies 4226
Misrepresentations, misleading statements and incomplete comparisons by insurers 4228
Life insurance and annuity business 4230
Salaries and pensions to officers and employees 4231
Policyholder’s participation in surplus of life insurance companies 4232
Amounts credited on certain contracts or life insurance policies 4233
Annual statements of life insurance companies 4235
Group accident and health insurance 4236
Joint underwriting of group health insurance for persons aged sixty-five and over 4237
Blanket accident and health insurance 4237–A
Stop-loss insurance 4238
Group annuity contracts 4239
Allocation and reporting of income and expenses of life insurers 4240
Separate accounts 4241
Penalty for violation of filing requirements
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Verified:
Jan. 10, 2026

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

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