Vermont Statutes Title 8 Sec. 4481
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 8 Sec. 4481
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Financial Regulation. See
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Domestic: when applied to a corporation, company, association, or copartnership shall mean organized under the laws of this State; "foreign" when so applied, shall mean organized under the laws of another state, government, or country. See
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Society: means a fraternal benefit society. See
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
§ 4481. Accident and health insurance and total and permanent disability insurance certificates; filing and approval
(a) No domestic, foreign, or alien society authorized to do business in this State shall issue or deliver in this State any certificate or other evidence of any contract of accident insurance or health insurance or of any total and permanent disability insurance contract unless and until the form thereof, together with the form of application and all riders of endorsements for use in connection therewith, has been filed with the Commissioner of Financial Regulation. Each filing of a policy, contract, endorsement, rider, or certificate shall be accompanied by payment to the Commissioner of a nonrefundable fee of $50.00 per filing submission.
(b) The Commissioner may adopt rules prescribing the required, optional, and prohibited provisions in the contracts, and the rules shall conform, as far as practicable, to the provisions of chapter 107 of this title. Where the Commissioner deems inapplicable, either in part or in their entity, the provisions of this chapter, the Commissioner may prescribe the portions or summary of the portions of the contract to be printed on the certificate issued to the member. (Added 1959, No. 197, § 21, eff. Nov. 22, 1959; amended 1989, No. 225 (Adj. Sess.), § 25; 1991, No. 166 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 1995, No. 180 (Adj. Sess.), § 38; 2011, No. 78 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. April 2, 2012; 2021, No. 105 (Adj. Sess.), § 195, eff. July 1, 2022.)