(a) No life insurance policy, other than industrial life insurance, shall be delivered or issued for delivery in this State, if it contains any of the following provisions:
(1) A provision by which the policy purports to be issued or to take effect more than 1 year before the original application for the insurance was made;
(2) A provision for any mode of settlement at maturity of the policy of less value than the amount insured under the policy, plus dividend additions, if any, less any indebtedness to the insurer on or secured by the policy and less any premium that may by the terms of the policy be deducted;
(3) A provision to the effect that the agent soliciting the insurance is the agent of the person insured under the policy or making the acts or representations of such agent binding upon the person so insured under the policy.
(b) No policy of industrial life insurance shall contain any of the following provisions:
(1) A provision by which the insurer may deny liability under the policy for the reason that the insured has previously obtained other insurance from the same insurer;
(2) A provision giving the insurer the right to declare the policy void because the insured has had any disease or ailment, whether specified or not, or because the insured has received institutional, hospital, medical or surgical treatment or attention, except a provision which gives the insurer the right to declare the policy void if the insured has, within 2 years prior to the issuance of the policy, received institutional, hospital, medical or surgical treatment or attention and if the insured or claimant under the policy fails to show that the condition occasioning such treatment or attention was not of a serious nature or was not material to the risk;
(3) A provision giving the insurer the right to declare the policy void because the insured has been rejected for insurance, unless such right be conditioned upon a showing by the insurer that knowledge of such rejection would have led to a refusal by the insurer to make such contract.
Structure Delaware Code
Chapter 29. LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITY CONTRACTS
§ 2903. “Industrial life insurance” defined.
§ 2904. Standard provisions required.
§ 2912. Table of installments.
§ 2915. Beneficiary, industrial policies.
§ 2917. Excluded or restricted coverage.
§ 2918. Standard provisions; annuity and pure endowment contracts.
§ 2919. Grace period; annuities.
§ 2920. Incontestability; annuities.
§ 2921. Entire contract; annuities.
§ 2922. Misstatement of age or sex; annuities.
§ 2924. Reinstatement; annuities.
§ 2925. Standard provisions; reversionary annuities.
§ 2926. Limitation of liability.
§ 2927. Prohibited provisions.
§ 2928. Provisions required by law of other jurisdiction.
§ 2929. Standard nonforfeiture law — Generally.
§ 2930. Incontestability; limitation of liability after reinstatement.
§ 2931. Participating, nonparticipating policies; right to issue.
§ 2933. Prohibited policy plans.
§ 2934. Registered policies, bonds; deposit.
§ 2935. Registered policies, bonds — Identification.
§ 2936. Registered policies, bonds — Records of Commissioner; valuation.
§ 2937. Registered policies, bonds — Additional deposits.
§ 2938. Registered policies, bonds — Deficient deposit.
§ 2939. Registered policies, bonds — Effect of insolvency.
§ 2940. Registered policies, bonds — Applicability of general deposit provisions.