(a) A policy and its rights and benefits may be assignable or not assignable, as provided by its terms.
(b) Subject to its terms relating to assignability, a life or health insurance policy and its rights and benefits, whether heretofore or hereafter issued, under the terms of which the beneficiary may be changed upon the sole request of the insured or owner, may be assigned either by pledge or transfer of title by an assignment executed by the insured or owner alone and delivered to the insurer, whether or not the pledgee or assignee is the insurer.
(c) Subject to its terms relating to assignability, a property insurance policy, whether heretofore or hereafter issued, under the terms of which the policy and its rights and benefits are assignable, may provide that the rights and benefits under the insurance policy may only be assigned to a person who has the legal authority to represent the named insured and may explicitly prohibit assignment of rights and benefits to any other person, including a property repair contractor. For purposes of this subsection, having “legal authority to represent the named insured” includes the person named by the named insured as having the named insured's power of attorney, the person who is the named insured's licensed public adjuster, or any other comparable person. Property repair contractors operating in this State may not subvert the public adjuster licensing requirements in § 1751 of this title through the acquisition of a power of attorney from the named insured.
(d) Any assignment pursuant to subsection (b) or (c) of this section shall entitle the insurer to deal with the assignee as the owner or pledgee of the policy or its rights and benefits in accordance with the terms of the assignment until the insurer has received at its home office written notice of termination of the assignment or pledge or written notice by or on behalf of some other person claiming some interest in the policy or its rights and benefits in conflict with the assignment.
Structure Delaware Code
Chapter 27. THE INSURANCE CONTRACT
Subchapter I. Insurance Contracts Generally
§ 2704. Insurable interest; personal insurance.
§ 2705. Insurable interest; exception when certain institutions designated beneficiary.
§ 2706. Insurable interest; property.
§ 2707. Power to contract; purchase of insurance and annuities by minors.
§ 2708. Consent of insured; life, health insurance.
§ 2709. Alteration of application, life and health insurance.
§ 2710. Application as evidence.
§ 2711. Representations in applications.
§ 2712. Filing, approval of forms.
§ 2713. Grounds for disapproval.
§ 2715. Charter or bylaw provisions.
§ 2716. Execution of policies.
§ 2717. Underwriters' and combination policies.
§ 2718. Validity and construction of noncomplying forms.
§ 2721. Payment discharges insurer.
§ 2722. Forms for proof of loss to be furnished.
§ 2723. Minor may give acquittance.
§ 2724. Claims administration not waiver.
§ 2726. Exemption of proceeds, health insurance.
§ 2727. Exemption of proceeds—Group insurance.
§ 2729. Retention of proceeds of policy by company.
§ 2730. Collection of overpayments by health insurers and health plans.