1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, no insurance policy that has been in effect for at least 70 days or that has been renewed may be cancelled by the insurer before the expiration of the agreed term or 1 year from the effective date of the policy or renewal, whichever occurs first, except on any one of the following grounds:
(a) Failure to pay a premium when due;
(b) Conviction of the insured of a crime arising out of acts increasing the hazard insured against;
(c) Discovery of fraud or material misrepresentation in the obtaining of the policy or in the presentation of a claim thereunder;
(d) Discovery of:
(1) An act or omission; or
(2) A violation of any condition of the policy,
which occurred after the first effective date of the current policy and substantially and materially increases the hazard insured against;
(e) A material change in the nature or extent of the risk, occurring after the first effective date of the current policy, which causes the risk of loss to be substantially and materially increased beyond that contemplated at the time the policy was issued or last renewed;
(f) A determination by the Commissioner that continuation of the insurer’s present volume of premiums would jeopardize the insurer’s solvency or be hazardous to the interests of policyholders of the insurer, its creditors or the public; or
(g) A determination by the Commissioner that the continuation of the policy would violate, or place the insurer in violation of, any provision of the Code.
2. No cancellation under subsection 1 is effective until in the case of paragraph (a) of subsection 1 at least 10 days and in the case of any other paragraph of subsection 1, at least 30 days after the notice is delivered or mailed to the policyholder.
3. The provisions of this section do not apply to a policy of industrial insurance.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1724; A 1987, 986; 2003, 3313)
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.