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Mont. Code Ann. § 33-22-1113

Disclosure and performance standards for long-term care insurance

Known as the Long-Term Care Insurance Act

The act spans §§ 33–33 (27 sections).

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(1) The commissioner may by rule adopt standards for full and fair disclosure, setting forth the manner, content, and disclosures required to be made in a long-term care insurance policy, including but not limited to:

(a) terms of renewability;

(b) initial and subsequent conditions of eligibility;

(c) nonduplication of coverage provisions;

(d) coverage of dependents;

(e) preexisting conditions;

(f) termination of insurance;

(g) continuation or conversion;

(h) probationary periods;

(i) limitations;

(j) exceptions;

(k) reductions;

(l) elimination periods;

(m) requirements for replacement;

(n) recurrent conditions;

(o) definition of terms;

(p) prohibitions on limitations and exclusions;

(q) extension of benefits;

(r) discontinuance and replacement of policies;

(s) unintentional lapse;

(t) prohibitions against postclaim underwriting;

(u) minimum standards for home health and community care benefits;

(v) inflation protection;

(w) incontestability period; and

(x) tax consequences.

(2) A group long-term care insurance policy must include a provision relating to conversion on termination of eligibility as described in 33-22-508 or include a provision for continuation of coverage that maintains coverage under the existing group policy if the coverage would otherwise terminate.

Official source: Montana Code Annotated (Montana Legislature). Reproduced from public-domain Montana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.