Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 699a - Readable Language in Insurance Policies
Section 38a-300. (Formerly Sec. 38-68x). - Exemptions.

(a) No provision of sections 38a-295 to 38a-300, inclusive, shall be construed to increase the risk assumed by any company or insurer under policies delivered or issued for delivery by such company or insurer or to supersede the obligation of such company or insurer to comply with the provisions of any law of this state applicable to such policies.

(b) No other law of this state which establishes standards for readable language shall apply to any policy form covered under the provisions of sections 38a-295 to 38a-300, inclusive.
(c) The provisions of sections 38a-295 to 38a-300, inclusive, shall not apply to: (1) Any policy that is a security subject to federal jurisdiction; (2) any group policy covering a group of fifty or more lives at date of issue, other than a group credit life insurance policy or a group credit health insurance policy, except this shall not exempt any certificate issued pursuant to a group policy delivered or issued for delivery in this state; (3) any group annuity contract that serves as a funding vehicle for pension, profit sharing or deferred compensation plans; (4) any form used in connection with a policy delivered or issued for delivery on a policy form that has been authorized for issuance by the commissioner prior to October 1, 1979, as to such policy form, except this shall not exempt any group policy or certificate issued thereunder unless the holders of such certificates are entitled to receive a summary plan description pursuant to the terms of the Federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974; or (5) the renewal of an annuity or an individual life or health insurance policy delivered or issued for delivery prior to the date any such form must be approved by the commissioner as readable.
(P.A. 79-300, S. 6; P.A. 14-235, S. 20.)
History: Sec. 38-68x transferred to Sec. 38a-300 in 1991; P.A. 14-235 made technical changes in Subsec. (c).

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