Tennessee Code 56-26-124 – Accident and sickness insurance – Patients in tax supported institutions not to be excluded
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-26-124
- 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 in the policy. See Tennessee Code 56-26-112
- Person: means any association, aggregate of individuals, business, company, corporation, individual, joint-stock company, Lloyds-type organization, organization, partnership, receiver, reciprocal or interinsurance exchange, trustee or society. See Tennessee Code 56-16-102
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
No policy of sickness and accident insurance delivered or issued for delivery to any person in this state on or after January 1, 1975, including both individual policies and group policies, shall exclude covered benefits because the insured is a patient hospitalized in a tax supported institution of this state or any county or municipality; provided, that the institution charges patients for the same services in the absence of insurance.