Monday, November 5, 2012

(m) Premiums paid to cover others’ risks


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A company may pay premiums to a related insurer to cover other persons’ risks. In Revenue Ruling 92-93, a manufacturer paid premiums to a subsidiary insurance company for group-term life insurance coverage for its employees. The Service concluded that the arrangement was not self-insurance because the manufacturer did not incur the underlying economic risk of loss.
 

The economic benefit was enjoyed by the employees, not the employer, which could not be the beneficiary under the contract. The arrangement, in effect, was a form of compensation for the taxpayer’s employees, who benefited from the life insurance coverage.

The Service ruled that similar principles would apply to the acquisition of accident and health insurance, including waiver of premium coverage upon disability that was provided by an employer for its employees. The Service applied similar principles in Revenue Ruling 92-94 to a nonlife insurance company that “charges itself an amount representing premiums for its liability to pay insurance or annuity benefits for its employees.”

It held that the arrangement was not self-insurance because it shifted employees’ risks to an insurance company. The amount that the insurer charged itself represented additional gross premiums written.