No policy of sickness and accident insurance delivered or issued for delivery to any person in this state on or after January 1, 1975, including both individual policies and group policies, shall exclude covered benefits because the insured is a patient hospitalized in a tax supported institution of this state or any county or municipality; provided, that the institution charges patients for the same services in the absence of insurance.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 56-26-124
Accident and sickness insurance — Patients in tax supported institutions not to be excluded
Known as the Tennessee Insurance Law
The act spans §§ 56–56 (1,220 sections).
Acts 1959, ch. 38, § 1; 1967, ch. 23, § 1; 1974, ch. 426, § 1; T.C.A., § 56-3324.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.