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NRS 687B.320

Policies other than industrial insurance policies: Grounds for midterm cancellation; notice to policyholder

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Daniels v. National Home Life Assurance Co. (1987)

Most recently applied in Eb Holdings II, Inc. v. Illinois National Insurance Company (July 2024)

(Added to NRS by 1971, 1724; A 1987, 986; 2003, 3313)

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1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, no insurance policy that has been in effect for at least 70 days or that has been renewed may be cancelled by the insurer before the expiration of the agreed term or 1 year from the effective date of the policy or renewal, whichever occurs first, except on any one of the following grounds:

(a) Failure to pay a premium when due;

(b) Conviction of the insured of a crime arising out of acts increasing the hazard insured against;

(c) Discovery of fraud or material misrepresentation in the obtaining of the policy or in the presentation of a claim thereunder;

(d) Discovery of:

(1) An act or omission; or

(2) A violation of any condition of the policy,

Ê which occurred after the first effective date of the current policy and substantially and materially increases the hazard insured against;

(e) A material change in the nature or extent of the risk, occurring after the first effective date of the current policy, which causes the risk of loss to be substantially and materially increased beyond that contemplated at the time the policy was issued or last renewed;

(f) A determination by the Commissioner that continuation of the insurer’s present volume of premiums would jeopardize the insurer’s solvency or be hazardous to the interests of policyholders of the insurer, its creditors or the public; or

(g) A determination by the Commissioner that the continuation of the policy would violate, or place the insurer in violation of, any provision of the Code.

2. No cancellation under subsection 1 is effective until, in the case of paragraph (a) of subsection 1, at least 10 days and, in the case of any other paragraph of subsection 1, at least 30 days after the notice is delivered or mailed to the policyholder.

3. The provisions of this section do not apply to a policy of industrial insurance.

Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.