Michigan Laws 500.3413 – Claim forms; provision required
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 500.3413
- Disability insurance policy: includes an insurance policy or insurance contract that insures against loss resulting from sickness or from bodily injury or death by accident, or both, including also the granting of specific hospital benefits and medical, surgical, and sick-care benefits to an individual, family, or group, subject to the exclusions provided in this section. See Michigan Laws 500.3400
- Health insurance policy: means an expense-incurred hospital, medical, or surgical policy, certificate, or contract. See Michigan Laws 500.608
- Insurer: means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, Lloyds organization, fraternal benefit society, or other legal entity, engaged or attempting to engage in the business of making insurance or surety contracts. See Michigan Laws 500.106
An insurer shall include in a disability insurance policy, other than a health insurance policy, a provision as follows:
CLAIM FORMS: The insurer, upon receipt of a notice of claim, will furnish to the claimant the forms that are usually furnished for filing proofs of loss. If the forms are not furnished within 15 days after the giving of the notice, the claimant is considered to have complied with the requirements of this policy as to proof of loss upon submitting, within the time fixed in the policy for filing proofs of loss, written proof covering the occurrence, the character, and the extent of the loss for which claim is made.