Be It Enacted by The Senate and House of Representatives of The Philippines in Congress Assembled

REPUBLIC ACT NO.
10607 In the application of the provisions of this Code, the fact

that no profit is derived from the making of insurance
AN ACT STRENGTHENING THE INSURANCE contracts, agreements or transactions or that no separate
INDUSTRY, FURTHER AMENDING or direct consideration is received therefor, shall not be
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 612, OTHERWISE deemed conclusive to show that the making thereof does
KNOWN AS THE INSURANCE CODE, AS not constitute the doing or transacting of an insurance
AMENDED BY PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NOS. business.
1141, 1280, 1455, 1460, 1814 AND 1981, AND
BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 874, AND FOR OTHER (c) As used in this Code, the term Commissioner means
PURPOSES the Insurance Commissioner.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of CHAPTER I

Representatives of the Philippines in Congress THE CONTRACT OF INSURANCE
assembled:
TITLE 1
Section 1. Presidential Decree No. 612, as amended, is WHAT MAY BE INSURED
hereby further amended to read as follows:
Section 3. Any contingent or unknown event, whether
GENERAL PROVISIONS past or future, which may damnify a person having an
insurable interest, or create a liability against him, may be
Section 1. This Decree shall be known as ‘The Insurance insured against, subject to the provisions of this chapter.
Code’.
The consent of the spouse is not necessary for the validity
Section 2. Whenever used in this Code, the following of an insurance policy taken out by a married person on
terms shall have the respective meanings hereinafter set his or her life or that of his or her children.
forth or indicated, unless the context otherwise requires:
All rights, title and interest in the policy of insurance
(a) A contract of insurance is an agreement whereby one taken out by an original owner on the life or health of the
undertakes for a consideration to indemnify another person insured shall automatically vest in the latter upon
against loss, damage or liability arising from an unknown the death of the original owner, unless otherwise provided
or contingent event. for in the policy.
A contract of suretyship shall be deemed to be an Section 4. The preceding section does not authorize an
insurance contract, within the meaning of this Code, only insurance for or against the drawing of any lottery, or for
if made by a surety who or which, as such, is doing an or against any chance or ticket in a lottery drawing a prize.
insurance business as hereinafter provided.
Section 5. All kinds of insurance are subject to the
(b) The term doing an insurance business or transacting provisions of this chapter so far as the provisions can
an insurance business, within the meaning of this Code, apply.
shall include:
TITLE 2
(1) Making or proposing to make, as insurer, any PARTIES TO THE CONTRACT
insurance contract;
Section 6. Every corporation, partnership, or association,
(2) Making or proposing to make, as surety, any contract duly authorized to transact insurance business as
of suretyship as a vocation and not as merely incidental to elsewhere provided in this Code, may be an insurer.
any other legitimate business or activity of the surety;
Section 7. Anyone except a public enemy may be insured.
(3) Doing any kind of business, including a reinsurance
business, specifically recognized as constituting the doing Section 8. Unless the policy otherwise provides, where a
of an insurance business within the meaning of this Code; mortgagor of property effects insurance in his own name
providing that the loss shall be payable to the mortgagee,
(4) Doing or proposing to do any business in substance or assigns a policy of insurance to a mortgagee, the
equivalent to any of the foregoing in a manner designed insurance is deemed to be upon the interest of the
to evade the provisions of this Code. mortgagor, who does not cease to be a party to the original
contract, and any act of his, prior to the loss, which would Section 14. An insurable interest in property may consist
otherwise avoid the insurance, will have the same effect, in:
although the property is in the hands of the mortgagee, but
any act which, under the contract of insurance, is to be (a) An existing interest;
performed by the mortgagor, may be performed by the
mortgagee therein named, with the same effect as if it had (b) An inchoate interest founded on an existing interest;
been performed by the mortgagor. or
Section 9. If an insurer assents to the transfer of an (c) An expectancy, coupled with an existing interest in
insurance from a mortgagor to a mortgagee, and, at the that out of which the expectancy arises.
time of his assent, imposes further obligations on the
assignee, making a new contract with him, the acts of the Section 15. A carrier or depository of any kind has an
mortgagor cannot affect the rights of said assignee. insurable interest in a thing held by him as such, to the
extent of his liability but not to exceed the value thereof.
TITLE 3
INSURABLE INTEREST Section 16. A mere contingent or expectant interest in any
thing, not founded on an actual right to the thing, nor upon
Section 10. Every person has an insurable interest in the any valid contract for it, is not insurable.
life and health:
Section 17. The measure of an insurable interest in
(a) Of himself, of his spouse and of his children; property is the extent to which the insured might be
damnified by loss or injury thereof.
(b) Of any person on whom he depends wholly or in part
for education or support, or in whom he has a pecuniary Section 18. No contract or policy of insurance on property
interest; shall be enforceable except for the benefit of some person
having an insurable interest in the property insured.
(c) Of any person under a legal obligation to him for the
payment of money, or respecting property or services, of Section 19. An interest in property insured must exist
which death or illness might delay or prevent the when the insurance takes effect, and when the loss occurs,
performance; and but need not exist in the meantime; and interest in the life
or health of a person insured must exist when the
(d) Of any person upon whose life any estate or interest insurance takes effect, but need not exist thereafter or
vested in him depends. when the loss occurs.
Section 11. The insured shall have the right to change the Section 20. Except in the cases specified in the next four
beneficiary he designated in the policy, unless he has sections, and in the cases of life, accident, and health
expressly waived this right in said policy. insurance, a change of interest in any part of a thing
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event the insured insured unaccompanied by a corresponding change of
does not change the beneficiary during his lifetime, the interest in the insurance, suspends the insurance to an
designation shall be deemed irrevocable. equivalent extent, until the interest in the thing and the
interest in the insurance are vested in the same person.
Section 12. The interest of a beneficiary in a life insurance
policy shall be forfeited when the beneficiary is the Section 21. A change of interest in a thing insured, after
principal, accomplice, or accessory in willfully bringing the occurrence of an injury which results in a loss, does
about the death of the insured. In such a case, the share not affect the right of the insured to indemnity for the loss.
forfeited shall pass on to the other beneficiaries, unless
otherwise disqualified. In the absence of other Section 22. A change of interest in one or more of several
beneficiaries, the proceeds shall be paid in accordance distinct things, separately insured by one policy, does not
with the policy contract. If the policy contract is silent, the avoid the insurance as to the others.
proceeds shall be paid to the estate of the insured.
Section 23. A change of interest, by will or succession, on
Section 13. Every interest in property, whether real or the death of the insured, does not avoid an insurance; and
personal, or any relation thereto, or liability in respect his interest in the insurance passes to the person taking his
thereof, of such nature that a contemplated peril might interest in the thing insured.
directly damnify the insured, is an insurable interest.
Section 24. A transfer of interest by one of several
partners, joint owners, or owners in common, who are
jointly insured, to the others, does not avoid an insurance
even though it has been agreed that the insurance shall
cease upon an alienation of the thing insured.
Section 25. Every stipulation in a policy of insurance for

the payment of loss whether the person insured has or has
not any interest in the property insured, or that the policy
shall be received as proof of such interest, and every
policy executed by way of gaming or wagering, is void.

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REPUBLIC ACT NO.

10607 In the application of the provisions of this Code, the fact

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of CHAPTER I

Section 25. Every stipulation in a policy of insurance for

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