1.  A lender shall not require a borrower, as a condition of obtaining or maintaining a loan secured by real property, to provide property insurance on improvements to real property in an amount that exceeds the reasonable replacement value of the improvements.

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Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 691A.030

  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

2.  As used in this section:

(a) ’Borrower’ means a mortgagor, grantor of a deed of trust or other debtor.

(b) ’Improvement to real property’ means a fixture, building or other structure attached to real property and intended as a permanent addition to the property.

(c) ’Lender’ means a mortgagee, beneficiary of a deed of trust or other creditor who holds a mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument that encumbers real property as security for the repayment of a debt.