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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1336

  • Policy: means an automobile liability, automobile physical damage, or automobile collision policy, or any combination thereof, delivered or issued for delivery in this state, or any binder based on such a policy, insuring a single individual or husband and wife resident of the same household, as named insured, and under which the insured vehicles therein designated are of the following types only:

                (a) A private passenger vehicle that is not used as a public or livery conveyance for passengers, nor rented to others. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1266

  • to renew: means the issuance and delivery by an insurer of a policy replacing at the end of the policy period a policy previously issued and delivered by the same insurer, or the issuance and delivery of a certificate or notice extending the term of a policy beyond its policy period or term. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1266

No insurer shall cancel, fail to renew, or increase the amount of the premium, except upon an area-wide rating basis at the beginning of a new policy period, on a homeowner’s policy of insurance based solely upon a loss caused by an “Act of God”.  An “Act of God” shall mean, in this Section, an incident due directly to natural causes and exclusively without human intervention.

Acts 1992, No. 70, §1; Redesignated from La. Rev. Stat. 22:1471 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.