North Dakota Code 26.1-36-37.2 – Loss ratios – Rules
For all policies providing hospital, surgical, medical, or major medical benefit, an insurance company, a nonprofit health service corporation, a fraternal benefit society, and any other entity providing a plan of health insurance or health benefit subject to state insurance regulation shall return benefits to group policyholders in the aggregate of not less than seventy percent of premium received and to individual policyholders in the aggregate of not less than fifty-five percent of premium received. The commissioner shall adopt rules to establish these minimum standards on the basis of incurred claims experienced and earned premiums for the entire period for which rates are computed to provide coverage in accordance with accepted actuarial principles and practices. This section does not apply to any contract or plan of insurance that provides exclusively for accident, disability income insurance, specified disease, hospital confinement indemnity, or other limited benefit health insurance.
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 26.1-36-37.2
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49