Idaho Code 41-2139 – Required Provisions — Coverage of Dependent Child
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Terms Used In Idaho Code 41-2139
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- insured: as used in this chapter , shall not be construed as preventing a person other than the insured with a proper insurable interest from making application for and owning a policy covering the insured or from being entitled under such a policy to any indemnities, benefits, and rights provided therein. See Idaho Code 41-2130
- Intellectual disability: means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning that is accompanied by significant limitations in adaptive functioning in at least two (2) of the following skill areas: communication, self-care, home living, social or interpersonal skills, use of community resources, self-direction, functional academic skills, work, leisure, health and safety. See Idaho Code 73-114
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114
There shall be a provision as follows: a policy delivered or issued for delivery in this state more than one hundred twenty (120) days after the effective date of this act under which coverage of a dependent of an insured terminates at a specified age shall, with respect to an unmarried child who is incapable of self-sustaining employment by reason of intellectual disability or physical disability and who became so incapable prior to attainment of the limiting age and who is chiefly dependent upon such insured for support and maintenance, not so terminate while the policy remains in force and the dependent remains in such condition, if the insured has within thirty-one (31) days of such dependent’s attainment of the limiting age submitted proof of such dependent’s incapacity as described herein. The insurer may require at reasonable intervals during the two (2) years following the child’s attainment of the limiting age subsequent proof of the child’s disability and dependency. After the two (2) year period, such subsequent proof may not be required more than once each year.