Permitted Section 5(d) Communication means the Section 5(d) Written Communication(s) and Marketing Materials listed on Schedule C attached hereto. All references in this Agreement to the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus, the Base Prospectus and the Prospectus shall include the documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein. All references in this Agreement to financial statements and schedules and other information which are “contained,” “included” or “stated” in, or “part of” the Registration Statement, the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus, the Base Prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus, and all other references of like import, shall be deemed to mean and include all such financial statements and schedules and other information which is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus, the Base Prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be. All references in this Agreement to amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus, the Base Prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to mean and include the filing of any document under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (collectively, the “Exchange Act”) that is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus, the Base Prospectus, or the Prospectus, as the case may be. All references in this Agreement to (i) the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus, the Base Prospectus or the Prospectus, any amendments or supplements to any of the foregoing, or any free writing prospectus, shall include any copy thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (“▇▇▇▇▇”) and (ii) the Prospectus shall be deemed to include any “electronic Prospectus” provided for use in connection with the offering of the Offered Shares as contemplated by Section 3(n) of this Agreement. The Company hereby confirms its agreements with the Underwriters as follows:
This means we liquidate purchase payments in the order they were made: the oldest unliquidated purchase payment first, the next oldest unliquidated purchase payment second, etc., until all purchase payments have been liquidated. The surrender charge as to any liquidated purchase payment is determined by multiplying the amount of the purchase payment being liquidated by the applicable percentage shown in the Schedule. The total surrender charge will be the sum of the surrender charges for each purchase payment being liquidated. In a partial withdrawal, the surrender charge is deducted from the Account Value remaining after you are paid the amount requested. The amount requested from a Sub-Account may not exceed the value of that Sub-Account less any applicable surrender charge. In a complete withdrawal (or surrender of this Contract), it is deducted from the amount otherwise payable. CHARGES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The types and amounts of charges and when and how they are deducted are described in the Schedule. OWNER, ANNUITANT AND BENEFICIARY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Owner - You are the Owner of this Contract. You have the rights and options described in this Contract, including but not limited to the right to receive the income payments beginning on the Income Date. One or more people may own this Contract. The Annuitant - Unless another Annuitant is shown in the Schedule, you are also the Annuitant. You may name a Contingent Annuitant. You will be the Contingent Annuitant unless you name someone else. If there are joint Owners, we will treat the youngest Owner as the Contingent Annuitant, unless you elect otherwise. If you are not the Annuitant and the Annuitant dies before the Income Date, the Contingent Annuitant becomes the Annuitant. If the Annuitant dies and no Contingent Annuitant has been named, we will allow you sixty days to designate someone other than yourself as Annuitant. The Beneficiary - We pay the death benefit to the primary Beneficiary (unless there are joint Owners in which case proceeds are payable to the surviving Owner). If the primary Beneficiary dies before the Owner, the death benefit is paid to the Contingent Beneficiary, if any. If there is no surviving Beneficiary, we pay the death benefit to the Owner's estate. One or more persons may be named as primary Beneficiary or Contingent Beneficiary. We will assume any death benefit is to be paid in equal shares to the multiple surviving Beneficiaries unless you specify otherwise. You have the right to change Beneficiaries. However, if you designate the primary Beneficiary as irrevocable, you may need the consent of that irrevocable Beneficiary to exercise the rights and options under this Contract. Change of Owner, Beneficiary or Annuitant - During your lifetime and while this Contract is in force you can transfer ownership of this Contract or change the Beneficiary, or change the Annuitant. (However, the Annuitant cannot be changed after the Income Date.) To make any of these changes, you must send us Satisfactory Notice. If accepted, any change in Owner, Beneficiary or Annuitant will take effect on the date you signed the notice. Any of these changes will not affect any payment made or action taken by us before our acceptance. A change of Owner may be a taxable event and may also affect the amount of death benefit payable under this Contract. DEATH BENEFITS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Death Benefit Before the Income Date - If any Owner dies before the Income Date, we will pay the Beneficiary the greatest of the following: