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Ark. Code Ann. § 20-6-311

Applicability — Death — Life insurance

Acts 2017, No. 504, § 1.

(1) A death that results from compliance with a physician order for life-sustaining treatment form does not constitute a suicide, homicide, or abuse, for any reason.

(2) The execution of a physician order for life-sustaining treatment form does not affect the sale, procurement, or issuance of a life insurance policy or annuity policy.

(3) A life insurance policy or annuity policy shall not be impaired or invalidated if emergency care or life-sustaining treatment is withheld from an insured individual who has executed a physician order for life-sustaining treatment form.

(4) This subchapter does not: Condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing, euthanasia, or physician-assisted suicide; or

(5) Permit any affirmative or deliberate act or omission to end life other than to permit the natural process of dying.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.