§4121. Accident and health insurance and total and permanent disability insurance certificates
A society may not issue or deliver in this State any certificate or other evidence of any contract or accident insurance or health insurance or of any total and permanent disability insurance contract unless and until the form thereof, together with the form of application and all riders or endorsements for use in connection therewith, has been filed with the superintendent and approved by the superintendent as conforming to reasonable rules from time to time made by the superintendent and as not inconsistent with any other provisions of law applicable thereto. For each such form filing, the society shall pay the superintendent a fee that must be the same as for an insurer, as provided in section 601. The superintendent shall, within a reasonable time after the filing of any such form, notify the society filing the form either of the superintendent's approval or of the superintendent's disapproval of that form. The superintendent may approve any such form that in the superintendent's opinion contains provisions on any one or more of the several requirements made by the superintendent that are more favorable to the members than the one or ones so required. The superintendent may make, alter and supersede reasonable regulations prescribing the required, optional and prohibited provisions in such contracts, and such regulations must conform, as far as practicable, to chapter 33. When the superintendent considers inapplicable, either in part or in their entirety, the provisions of the foregoing sections, the superintendent may prescribe the portions or summary thereof of the contract to be printed on the certificate issued to the member. Any filing made under this section is deemed approved unless disapproved within 60 days from the date of such filing. The procedures governing all rules promulgated under authority of this section must conform to Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2. [RR 2021, c. 1, Pt. B, §329 (COR).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1969, c. 132, §1 (NEW). PL 1973, c. 585, §12 (AMD). PL 1977, c. 694, §430 (AMD). PL 1983, c. 419, §12 (AMD). RR 2021, c. 1, Pt. B, §329 (COR).
Structure Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 24-A: MAINE INSURANCE CODE
Chapter 55: FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES
24-A §4101. Fraternal benefit societies defined
24-A §4102. Lodge system defined
24-A §4103. Representative form of government defined
24-A §4105. Corporate powers retained
24-A §4106. Voluntary associations
24-A §4107. Location of office -- place of meeting
24-A §4108. Consolidations and mergers
24-A §4109. Conversion of fraternal benefit society into mutual life insurance company
24-A §4110. Qualifications for membership
24-A §4111. Articles of incorporation, constitution and laws -- amendments
24-A §4113. No personal liability
24-A §4115. Benefits on lives of children
24-A §4116. Nonforfeiture benefits, cash surrender values, certificate loans and other options
24-A §4118. Benefits not attachable
24-A §4120. Life benefit certificate provisions, standard and prohibited
24-A §4121. Accident and health insurance and total and permanent disability insurance certificates
24-A §4121-A. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
24-A §4125. Foreign or alien society -- admission
24-A §4126. Injunction -- liquidation -- receivership of domestic society
24-A §4127-A. Suspension, revocation or refusal of license of foreign or alien society
24-A §4128. Licensing of agents
24-A §4129. Service of process
24-A §4134. Reports and valuations
24-A §4135. Examination of domestic societies
24-A §4136. Examination of foreign and alien societies
24-A §4137. No adverse publications
24-A §4138. Misrepresentation (REPEALED)
24-A §4138-A. Enforcement; unfair methods of competition and unfair and deceptive acts and practices
24-A §4139. Discrimination and rebates (REPEALED)
24-A §4139-A. Funeral service contracts