(a) The Insurance Commissioner may adopt rules for long-term care insurance that include, but are not limited to, standards for full and fair disclosure addressing: (1) The manner, content, and required disclosures for the sale of long-term care insurance policies; (2) Terms of renewability; (3) Initial and subsequent conditions of eligibility; (4) Nonduplication of coverage provisions; (5) Coverage of dependents; (6) Preexisting conditions; (7) Termination of insurance; (8) Continuation or conversion of coverage; (9) Probationary periods; (10) Limitations, exceptions, reductions, and elimination periods; (11) Requirements for replacement; (12) Recurrent conditions; and (13) Definitions of terms. (b) No long-term care insurance policy shall: (1) Be cancelled, not renewed, or otherwise terminated because of age or the deterioration of the mental or physical health of the insured individual or certificate holder; (2) Contain a provision establishing a new waiting period in the event existing coverage is converted to or replaced by a new or other form of coverage within the same company, except with respect to an increase in benefits voluntarily selected by the insured individual or group policyholder; or (3) Provide coverage for skilled nursing care only or provide significantly more coverage for skilled care within a facility than coverage for lower levels of care. Amended by Act 2019, No. 315,§ 2790, eff. 7/24/2019. Acts 2005, No. 1697, § 31. (a) The Insurance Commissioner may adopt rules for long-term care insurance that include, but are not limited to, standards for full and fair disclosure addressing: (1) The manner, content, and required disclosures for the sale of long-term care insurance policies; (2) Terms of renewability; (3) Initial and subsequent conditions of eligibility; (4) Nonduplication of coverage provisions; (5) Coverage of dependents; (6) Preexisting conditions; (7) Termination of insurance; (8) Continuation or conversion of coverage; (9) Probationary periods; (10) Limitations, exceptions, reductions, and elimination periods; (11) Requirements for replacement; (12) Recurrent conditions; and (13) Definitions of terms. (b) No long-term care insurance policy shall: (1) Be cancelled, not renewed, or otherwise terminated because of age or the deterioration of the mental or physical health of the insured individual or certificate holder; (2) Contain a provision establishing a new waiting period in the event existing coverage is converted to or replaced by a new or other form of coverage within the same company, except with respect to an increase in benefits voluntarily selected by the insured individual or group policyholder; or (3) Provide coverage for skilled nursing care only or provide significantly more coverage for skilled care within a facility than coverage for lower levels of care. Amended by Act 2019, No. 315,§ 2790, eff. 7/24/2019. Acts 2005, No. 1697, § 31. (a) The Insurance Commissioner may adopt rules for long-term care insurance that include, but are not limited to, standards for full and fair disclosure addressing: (1) The manner, content, and required disclosures for the sale of long-term care insurance policies; (2) Terms of renewability; (3) Initial and subsequent conditions of eligibility; (4) Nonduplication of coverage provisions; (5) Coverage of dependents; (6) Preexisting conditions; (7) Termination of insurance; (8) Continuation or conversion of coverage; (9) Probationary periods; (10) Limitations, exceptions, reductions, and elimination periods; (11) Requirements for replacement; (12) Recurrent conditions; and (13) Definitions of terms. (b) No long-term care insurance policy shall: (1) Be cancelled, not renewed, or otherwise terminated because of age or the deterioration of the mental or physical health of the insured individual or certificate holder; (2) Contain a provision establishing a new waiting period in the event existing coverage is converted to or replaced by a new or other form of coverage within the same company, except with respect to an increase in benefits voluntarily selected by the insured individual or group policyholder; or (3) Provide coverage for skilled nursing care only or provide significantly more coverage for skilled care within a facility than coverage for lower levels of care. Amended by Act 2019, No. 315,§ 2790, eff. 7/24/2019. Acts 2005, No. 1697, § 31. (a) The Insurance Commissioner may adopt rules for long-term care insurance that include, but are not limited to, standards for full and fair disclosure addressing: (1) The manner, content, and required disclosures for the sale of long-term care insurance policies; (2) Terms of renewability; (3) Initial and subsequent conditions of eligibility; (4) Nonduplication of coverage provisions; (5) Coverage of dependents; (6) Preexisting conditions; (7) Termination of insurance; (8) Continuation or conversion of coverage; (9) Probationary periods; (10) Limitations, exceptions, reductions, and elimination periods; (11) Requirements for replacement; (12) Recurrent conditions; and (13) Definitions of terms. (1) The manner, content, and required disclosures for the sale of long-term care insurance policies; (2) Terms of renewability; (3) Initial and subsequent conditions of eligibility; (4) Nonduplication of coverage provisions; (5) Coverage of dependents; (6) Preexisting conditions; (7) Termination of insurance; (8) Continuation or conversion of coverage; (9) Probationary periods; (10) Limitations, exceptions, reductions, and elimination periods; (11) Requirements for replacement; (12) Recurrent conditions; and (13) Definitions of terms. (b) No long-term care insurance policy shall: (1) Be cancelled, not renewed, or otherwise terminated because of age or the deterioration of the mental or physical health of the insured individual or certificate holder; (2) Contain a provision establishing a new waiting period in the event existing coverage is converted to or replaced by a new or other form of coverage within the same company, except with respect to an increase in benefits voluntarily selected by the insured individual or group policyholder; or (3) Provide coverage for skilled nursing care only or provide significantly more coverage for skilled care within a facility than coverage for lower levels of care. (1) Be cancelled, not renewed, or otherwise terminated because of age or the deterioration of the mental or physical health of the insured individual or certificate holder; (2) Contain a provision establishing a new waiting period in the event existing coverage is converted to or replaced by a new or other form of coverage within the same company, except with respect to an increase in benefits voluntarily selected by the insured individual or group policyholder; or (3) Provide coverage for skilled nursing care only or provide significantly more coverage for skilled care within a facility than coverage for lower levels of care. Acts 2005, No. 1697, § 31.
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