38 U.S.C. § 1966

Eligible insurance companies

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(a) The Secretary is authorized, without regard to section 6101(b) to (d) of title 41, to purchase from one or more life insurance companies a policy or policies of group life insurance to provide the benefits specified in this subchapter. Each such life insurance company must (1) be licensed to issue life insurance in each of the fifty States of the United States and in the District of Columbia, and (2) as of the most recent December 31 for which information is available to the Secretary, have in effect at least 1 percent of the total amount of group life insurance which all life insurance companies have in effect in the United States.(b) The life insurance company or companies issuing such policy or policies shall establish an administrative office at a place and under a name designated by the Secretary.(c) The Secretary shall arrange with the life insurance company or companies issuing any policy or policies under this subchapter to reinsure, under conditions approved by the Secretary, portions of the total amount of insurance under such policy or policies with such other life insurance companies (which meet qualifying criteria set forth by the Secretary) as may elect to participate in such reinsurance.(d) The Secretary may at any time discontinue any policy or policies which the Secretary has purchased from any insurance company under this subchapter.(Added Pub. L. 89–214, § 1(a), Sept. 29, 1965, 79 Stat. 880, § 766; amended Pub. L. 97–295, § 4(29), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1307; Pub. L. 99–576, title VII, § 701(36), Oct. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 3293; renumbered § 1966 and amended Pub. L. 102–83, §§ 4(b)(1), (2)(E), 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404–406; Pub. L. 111–350, § 5(j)(2), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3850.)Editorial NotesAmendments

2011—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–350 substituted “section 6101(b) to (d) of title 41” for “section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (41 U.S.C. 5)”.

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 766 of this title as this section and substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” wherever appearing.

1986—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 99–576, § 701(36)(A), substituted “the Administrator” for “him”.

Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 99–576, § 701(36)(B), substituted “the Administrator” for “he”.

1982—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 97–295 substituted “percent” for “per centum”.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 7 cases, 1993–2014 · leading case: Parker v. Off. of Servicemembers' Grp. Life Ins., 91 F. Supp. 2d 820 (E.D. Pa. 2000).

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Parker v. Off. of Servicemembers' Grp. Life Ins., 91 F. Supp. 2d 820 (E.D. Pa. 2000). · cites it 4× “See 38 U.S.C. § 1966 (a). The government contracted with defendant Prudential to provide the coverage which is the subject of the dispute here.”

Cotton v. Prudential Ins. Co. of Am., 391 F. Supp. 2d 1137 (N.D. Fla. 2005). “3d at 475 ; See 38 U.S.C. § 1966 ; See also Rice v. Office of Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance, supra, 260 F.”

Mills v. Prudential Ins. Co. of Am., 856 F. Supp. 2d 1218 (D. Colo. 2012). “The current default amount of coverage for a service member is $400,000. Id. § 1967(a)(3)(A)®. SGLIA privileges the right of the service member to designate any person or entity as a beneficiary.”

Van Den Broek v. Tang, 88 Va. Cir. 65 (Fairfax Cir. Ct. 2014). “ing at the date of the insured’s death, in the following order of precedence: First, to the beneficiary or beneficiaries as the member or former member may have designated by a writing received prior to death (1) in the uniformed services if insured under Servicemembers’ Group…”

Jones v. Prudential Ins. Co. of Am., 814 F. Supp. 500 (W.D. Va. 1993). “On July 29,1988, Prudential, which operates the office of Servicemen’s Group Life Insurance (see 38 U.S.C. § 1966 ), received from the United States Army Form DD 1300, “Report of Casualty,” which stated that Signe Juanita Cutler had died on June 26, 1988, as the result of:…”

Prudential Ins. Co. of Am. v. Athmer, 178 F.3d 473 (7th Cir. 1999). “§ 1970 (a), although the contingency of a beneficiary’s murdering the insured is not addressed.”

United States v. Ingerberth C. Baird, 348 F. App'x 442 (11th Cir. 2009). “” That is sufficient evidence to show the claim was upon or against the government, and no language in the relevant statutory provisions, see 38 U.S.C. §§ 1966 , 1967, 1969, and 1971, contradicts that testimony.”

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