§432:1-601 - Contract limitations for mentally retarded and handicapped children.
PART VI. REQUIRED PROVISIONS AND BENEFITS
§432:1-601 Contract limitations for mentally retarded and handicapped children. All individual and group hospital or medical service plan contracts, delivered or issued for delivery in this State after May 8, 1968, which provide that coverage of a dependent child shall terminate upon attainment of the limiting age for dependent children specified in the contract shall also provide in substance that attainment of such limiting age shall not operate to terminate the coverage of such child while the child is and continues to be both (1) incapable of self-sustaining employment by reason of mental retardation or physical handicap, and (2) chiefly dependent upon the policyholder, subscriber or employee as the case may be, for support and maintenance, provided proof of such incapacity and dependency is furnished to the hospital service or medical indemnity association by the policyholder, subscriber or employee within thirty-one days of the child's attainment of the limiting age and subsequently as may be required by such association. [L 1987, c 347, pt of §2]