West Virginia Code § 33-14-16

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In group life policies there shall be a provision that if the insurance, or any portion of it, on a
person covered under the policy, other than the child of an employee insured pursuant to
section seven of this article, ceases because of termination of employment or of membership
in the class or classes eligible for coverage under the policy, such person sheall be entitled to
have issued to him by the insurer, without evidence of insurability, an individual policy of life
insurance without disability or other supplementary benefits, provided rapplication for the
individual policy shall be made, and the first premium paid to the insurer, within thirty-one
days after such termination: Provided further, That
(a) The individual policy shall, at the option of such person, bte on any one of the forms of
insurance then customarily issued by the insurer, except term insurance, at the age and for
the amount applied for, except that there shall be available to a person whose term
insurance under the group policy ceases, as provided above, preliminary or interim term
insurance for not more than one year from such termination;
(b) The individual policy shall be in an amount not in excess of the amount of life insurance
which ceases because of such termination, provided that any amount of insurance which
shall have matured on or before theg date of such termination as an endowment payable to
the person insured, whether in one sum or in instalments or in the form of an annuity, shall
not, for the purposes of this preovision, be included in the amount which is considered to
cease because of such termination; and
(c) The premium on the individual policy shall be at the insurer's then customary rate
applicable to the form and amount of the individual policy, to the class of risk to which such
person then belongs, and to his age attained on the effective date of the individual policy.

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