"Health insurance" is a contract or agreement whereby an insurer is obligated to pay or allow a benefit of pecuniary value with respect to the bodily injury, disablement, sickness, death by accident or accidental means of a human being, or because of any expense relating thereto, or because of any expense incurred in prevention of sickness, and includes every risk pertaining to any of the enumerated risks. Health insurance does not include workmen's compensation coverages.
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 17B:17-4
Health insurance defined
Known as the New Jersey Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act
The act spans §§ 17B:17-1 to 17B:37-9 (1,003 sections).
L.1971, c. 144, s. 17B:17-4.
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