56-7-1604 - Applicability Exceptions.

56-7-1604. Applicability Exceptions.

(a)  This part applies to all policies delivered or issued for delivery in this state by any company on or after the date the forms are subject to this part, but nothing in this part applies to:

     (1)  Any policy that is a security subject to federal jurisdiction;

     (2)  Any group policy covering a group of one thousand (1,000) or more lives at date of issue, other than a group credit life insurance policy or a group credit health insurance policy; provided, that this subsection (a) shall not exempt any certificate issued pursuant to a group policy delivered or issued for delivery in this state;

     (3)  Any group annuity contract that serves as a funding vehicle for pension, profit-sharing, or deferred compensation plans;

     (4)  Any form used in connection with, as a conversion from, as an addition to, or in exchange pursuant to a contractual provision for, a policy delivered or issued for delivery on a form approved or permitted to be issued prior to the dates the forms must be approved under this part; or

     (5)  The renewal of a policy delivered or issued for delivery prior to the dates the forms must be approved under this part.

(b)  No other statute of this state setting language simplification standards shall apply to any policy forms.

(c)  Any non-English language policy delivered or issued for delivery in this state shall be deemed to be in compliance with § 56-7-1605(a)(1) if the insurer certifies that the policy is translated from an English language policy that does comply with § 56-7-1605(a)(1).

[Acts 1981, ch. 415, § 5.]