33-20-122. Prohibited provisions -- industrial life insurance. 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.
History: En. Sec. 321, Ch. 286, L. 1959; R.C.M. 1947, 40-3827.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Title 33. Insurance and Insurance Companies
33-20-102. Industrial life insurance defined
33-20-103. Standard provisions required -- exceptions
33-20-107. Misstatement of age
33-20-109. Renumbered 33-20-131
33-20-111. Table of installments
33-20-113. Payment of premiums
33-20-114. Payment of claims -- interest
33-20-115. Beneficiary -- industrial policies
33-20-117. Nonforfeiture rights -- policies issued before operative date
33-20-118. Contestability -- excluded or restricted coverage
33-20-120. Policy settlements -- holding proceeds -- indebtedness deducted from proceeds
33-20-121. Prohibited provisions -- limitations on liability
33-20-122. Prohibited provisions -- industrial life insurance
33-20-123. Prohibited policy plans -- life insurance policies or annuity contracts
33-20-124. Policy provisions -- conformity with state statutes
33-20-125. and 33-20-126 reserved
33-20-128. Life insurance policy paying long-term benefits -- monthly report
33-20-129. and 33-20-130 reserved
33-20-131. Policy loan or certificate loan
33-20-132. Variable policy loan interest rates -- purpose
33-20-133. Variable interest rates -- exclusions from application
33-20-134. Variable interest rates -- published monthly average defined
33-20-135. Variable interest rates on policy loans
33-20-136. Variable interest rates -- applicability to policies issued before October 1985
33-20-137. through 33-20-140 reserved
33-20-141. Notice required for cancellation
33-20-142. Contents of notice -- proof -- limitation on recovery -- exemptions
33-20-143. through 33-20-149 reserved
33-20-150. Life insurance policy and sales illustrations -- annuity disclosure -- rules