(a) Each person within this state holding a policy of insurance issued by a life insurance company doing business in this state shall be furnished by the company with a copy of the application upon which the policy was issued, upon demand made for such copy by the policyholder, or by any person upon whose life the policy was issued.
(b) If the company fails for thirty days from the time of the demand to furnish to the person making the demand a copy of the application, the company shall be forever barred from setting up, by way of defense to any suit on the policy of insurance, any error, incorrectness, fraud or misrepresentation of that person, or any mistake therein; and the application shall thereafter be taken and held, so far as the application may affect any claim under the policy, or any fund secured thereby, to be in all respects true and correct.
(1949 Rev., S. 6148; P.A. 90-243, S. 63.)
History: P.A. 90-243 divided the section into Subsecs. and made technical changes for statutory consistency; Sec. 38-158 transferred to Sec. 38a-437 in 1991.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 700b - Life Insurance, Annuities, Burial Contracts and Life Settlements
Section 38a-431. (Formerly Sec. 38-153). - Group insurance.
Section 38a-432. (Formerly Sec. 38-154). - Annuities.
Section 38a-432a. - Regulations concerning consumer annuity transactions.
Section 38a-434. (Formerly Sec. 38-155). - Insurance against accident and disease.
Section 38a-437. (Formerly Sec. 38-158). - Copy of application to be furnished.
Section 38a-438. (Formerly Sec. 38-130b). - Short title: Standard Nonforfeiture Law.
Section 38a-441. (Formerly Sec. 38-159c). - Notice to insured when life insurance policy paid up.
Section 38a-442. (Formerly Sec. 38-156). - Dating back of policies prohibited.
Section 38a-443. (Formerly Sec. 38-147). - Premium notes.
Section 38a-444. (Formerly Sec. 38-147b). - Life insurance policy loans. Interest rate allowable.
Section 38a-445. (Formerly Sec. 38-160). - Deferring the granting of loans and surrender values.
Section 38a-446. (Formerly Sec. 38-149). - Discrimination in favor of individuals prohibited.
Section 38a-447a. - Exclusion of coverage on the basis of naloxone prescription prohibited.
Section 38a-448 and 38a-449. (Formerly Secs. 38-151 and 38-152). - Affidavit of examining physician.
Section 38a-451. (Formerly Sec. 38-159a). - Trustee as beneficiary of policy.
Section 38a-452. (Formerly Sec. 38-159b). - Payment of interest on life insurance death benefits.
Section 38a-453. (Formerly Sec. 38-161). - Rights of creditors of insured against beneficiary.
Section 38a-455. - Assignment of incidents of ownership under group life policy.
Section 38a-457. - Accelerated benefits of life insurance policies.
Section 38a-460. - Accumulation fund arrangements. Definition.
Section 38a-464. (Formerly Sec. 38-32). - Burial contracts; license from Insurance Commissioner.
Section 38a-465. - Definitions.
Section 38a-465a. - Licensing of life settlement providers and brokers.
Section 38a-465b. - Denial, suspension or revocation of license. Refusal to renew license. Appeals.
Section 38a-465f. - Required disclosures.
Section 38a-465h. - Premium finance loans. Disclosures and certifications.
Section 38a-465i. - Violations.
Section 38a-465k. - Injunctions. Cease and desist orders. Damages.
Section 38a-465l. - Penalties.