1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2:
(a) No life or health insurance policy or contract, annuity contract form, policy form, health care plan or plan for dental care, whether individual, group or blanket, including those to be issued by a health maintenance organization, organization for dental care or prepaid limited health service organization, or application form where a written application is required and is to be made a part of the policy or contract, or printed rider or endorsement form or form of renewal certificate, or form of individual certificate or statement of coverage to be issued under group or blanket contracts, or by a health maintenance organization, organization for dental care or prepaid limited health service organization, may be delivered or issued for delivery in this state, unless the form has been filed with and approved by the Commissioner.
(b) As to individual policies pursuant to paragraph (d) of subsection 2 of NRS 679B.220 or group insurance policies effectuated and delivered outside this state but covering persons resident in this state, the certificates to be delivered or issued for delivery in this state must be filed, for informational purposes only, with the Commissioner at the request of the Commissioner.
2. As to group insurance policies to be issued to a group approved pursuant to NRS 688B.030 or 689B.026, no policies of group insurance may be marketed to a resident or employer of this State unless the policy and any form or certificate to be issued pursuant to the policy has been filed with and approved by the Commissioner.
3. Every filing made pursuant to the provisions of subsection 1 or 2 must be made not less than 45 days in advance of any delivery pursuant to subsection 1 or marketing pursuant to subsection 2. At the expiration of 45 days the form so filed shall be deemed approved unless prior thereto it has been affirmatively approved or disapproved by order of the Commissioner. Approval of any such form by the Commissioner constitutes a waiver of any unexpired portion of such waiting period. The Commissioner may extend by not more than an additional 30 days the period within which the Commissioner may so affirmatively approve or disapprove any such form, by giving notice to the insurer of the extension before expiration of the initial 45-day period. At the expiration of any such period as so extended, and in the absence of prior affirmative approval or disapproval, any such form shall be deemed approved. The Commissioner may at any time, after notice and for cause shown, withdraw any such approval.
4. Any order of the Commissioner disapproving any such form or withdrawing a previous approval must state the grounds therefor and the particulars thereof in such detail as reasonably to inform the insurer thereof. Any such withdrawal of a previously approved form is effective at the expiration of such a period, not less than 30 days after the giving of notice of withdrawal, as the Commissioner in such notice prescribes.
5. The Commissioner may, by order, exempt from the requirements of this section for so long as the Commissioner deems proper any insurance document or form or type thereof specified in the order, to which, in the opinion of the Commissioner, this section may not practicably be applied, or the filing and approval of which are, in the opinion of the Commissioner, not desirable or necessary for the protection of the public.
6. Appeals from orders of the Commissioner disapproving any such form or withdrawing a previous approval may be taken as provided in NRS 679B.310 to 679B.370, inclusive.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1716; A 1993, 2398; 1995, 1624; 2011, 3371; 2019, 1439)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 687B - Contracts of Insurance
NRS 687B.015 - "Binder" defined.
NRS 687B.030 - Waiver of payment of premium.
NRS 687B.040 - Insurable interest: Personal insurance.
NRS 687B.050 - Insurable interest: Exception when certain institutions designated beneficiary.
NRS 687B.060 - Insurable interest: Property.
NRS 687B.070 - Power to contract; purchase of insurance and annuities by minors.
NRS 687B.090 - Alteration of application: Life and health insurance.
NRS 687B.100 - Application as evidence.
NRS 687B.110 - Representations in applications.
NRS 687B.122 - Readability of policies: Applicability of requirements.
NRS 687B.128 - Readability of policies: Required approval by Commissioner in certain circumstances.
NRS 687B.130 - Grounds for disapproval or withdrawal of previous approval.
NRS 687B.140 - Standard provisions.
NRS 687B.160 - Execution of policies.
NRS 687B.170 - Underwriters’ and combination policies.
NRS 687B.180 - Validity and construction of noncomplying forms.
NRS 687B.182 - Binders: Issuance; period of effectiveness.
NRS 687B.183 - Binders: Forms; required statement related to certain policies; delivery of copies.
NRS 687B.185 - Binders: Prohibition of use to lower premiums.
NRS 687B.186 - Binders: Proof of insurance coverage; penalties for refusal to accept; exception.
NRS 687B.187 - Binders: Disapproval of insurer.
NRS 687B.200 - Assignability: Life or health insurance policy.
NRS 687B.220 - Forms for proof of loss required to be furnished by insurer to insured claimant.
NRS 687B.240 - Administration of claims not waiver.
NRS 687B.250 - Payment not to constitute admission of liability or waiver of defenses.
NRS 687B.255 - Insurer required to pay claim with negotiable instrument.
NRS 687B.260 - Exemption of proceeds of certain policies.
NRS 687B.270 - Exemption of proceeds: Health insurance.
NRS 687B.280 - Exemption of proceeds: Group insurance.
NRS 687B.290 - Exemption of proceeds: Annuities; assignability of rights.
NRS 687B.300 - Retention of proceeds of policy by insurer.
NRS 687B.310 - Cancellations and nonrenewals; scope of application.
NRS 687B.330 - Anniversary cancellation.
NRS 687B.345 - Annual review of coverage and benefits provided in policy.
NRS 687B.470 - "Health benefit plan" defined.
NRS 687B.500 - Basis for premium rate; exceptions.
NRS 687B.602 - "Administrator" defined.
NRS 687B.605 - "Covered person" defined.
NRS 687B.606 - "Dental care" defined.
NRS 687B.607 - "Direct notification" defined.
NRS 687B.610 - "Evidence of coverage" defined.
NRS 687B.615 - "Health benefit plan" defined.
NRS 687B.620 - "Health care services" defined.
NRS 687B.625 - "Health carrier" defined.
NRS 687B.630 - "Intermediary" defined.
NRS 687B.635 - "Medically necessary" defined.
NRS 687B.640 - "Network" defined.
NRS 687B.645 - "Network plan" defined.
NRS 687B.650 - "Participating provider of health care" defined.
NRS 687B.655 - "Primary care physician" defined.
NRS 687B.658 - "Provider network contract" defined.
NRS 687B.660 - "Provider of health care" defined.
NRS 687B.664 - "Third party" defined.
NRS 687B.665 - "Utilization review" defined.
NRS 687B.670 - Requirements to offer or issue network plan.
NRS 687B.675 - Provision of information to Office for Consumer Health Assistance.
NRS 687B.740 - Inducement to provide less than medically necessary health care services prohibited.
NRS 687B.760 - Health records; confidentiality.
NRS 687B.800 - Retaliation for good faith reporting to state or federal authority prohibited.
NRS 687B.820 - Procedures for resolution of disputes.
NRS 687B.862 - "Attachment point" defined.
NRS 687B.864 - "Group health plan" defined.
NRS 687B.866 - "Health care services" defined.
NRS 687B.868 - "Multiple employer welfare arrangement" defined.
NRS 687B.870 - "Network" defined.
NRS 687B.872 - "Policy of provider stop-loss insurance" defined.
NRS 687B.874 - "Policy of stop-loss insurance" defined.
NRS 687B.876 - "Provider of health care" defined.
NRS 687B.878 - Reporting of premiums written in this State for policies of stop-loss insurance.