RCW 48.66.120
Return of policy and refund of premium—Notice required—Effect of return.
(1) Every individual medicare supplement insurance policy issued after January 1, 1982, and every certificate issued pursuant to a group medicare supplement policy after January 1, 1982, shall have prominently displayed on the first page of the policy form or certificate a notice stating in substance that the person to whom the policy or certificate is issued shall be permitted to return the policy or certificate within thirty days of its delivery to the purchaser and to have the premium refunded if, after examination of the policy or certificate, the purchaser is not satisfied with it for any reason. An additional ten percent penalty shall be added to any premium refund due which is not paid within thirty days of return of the policy to the insurer or insurance producer. If a policyholder or purchaser, pursuant to such notice, returns the policy or certificate to the insurer at its home or branch office or to the insurance producer through whom it was purchased, it shall be void from the beginning and the parties shall be in the same position as if no policy or certificate had been issued.
(2) No later than January 1, 2010, or when the insurer has used all of its existing paper individual medicare supplement insurance policy forms which were in its possession on July 1, 2009, whichever is earlier, the notice required by subsection (1) of this section shall use the term insurance producer in place of agent.
[ 2008 c 217 § 65; 1983 1st ex.s. c 32 § 12; 1982 c 200 § 3; 1981 c 153 § 12.]
NOTES:
Severability—Effective date—2008 c 217: See notes following RCW 48.03.020.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 48.66 - Medicare Supplemental Health Insurance Act.
48.66.010 - Short title—Intent—Application of chapter.
48.66.025 - Restrictions on issuers—Age of applicants—Preexisting conditions.
48.66.030 - Renewability—Benefit standards—Benefit limitations.
48.66.035 - Commissioner's approval required.
48.66.041 - Minimum standards required by rule—Waiver.
48.66.045 - Mandated coverage for replacement policies—Rates on a community-rated basis.
48.66.050 - Policy or certificate provisions prohibited by rule—Waivers restricted.
48.66.060 - Equal coverage of sickness and accidents.
48.66.070 - Adjustment of benefits and premiums for medicare cost-sharing.
48.66.080 - "Benefit period"—"Medicare benefit period"—Minimum requirements.
48.66.090 - Guaranteed renewable—Exceptions.
48.66.100 - Loss ratio requirements—Mass sales practices of individual policies.
48.66.110 - Disclosure by insurer—Outline of coverage required.
48.66.120 - Return of policy and refund of premium—Notice required—Effect of return.
48.66.130 - Preexisting condition limitations.
48.66.150 - Reporting and recordkeeping, separate data required.
48.66.160 - Federal law supersedes.
48.66.165 - Conformity with federal law—Rules.
48.66.910 - Effective date—1981 c 153.
48.66.920 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.