California Insurance Code ARTICLE 4 - Payment and Proceeds

• Section 10170.
  Life insurance may be made payable as follows:(a) On the death of the insured.(b) On his or her surviving a specified period.(c) Periodically as long as he or...
• Section 10171.
  Any life policy or other agreement relating to the holding or payment of the proceeds of a life policy may provide that the proceeds thereof...
• Section 10172.
  Notwithstanding Sections 751 and 1100 of the Family Code and Section 249.5 of the Probate Code, when the proceeds of, or payments under, a life...
• Section 10172.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each insurer admitted to transact life insurance, credit life insurance, or accidental death insurance in this state that fails...
• Section 10173.
  When a policy of life insurance is assigned in writing the insurer may deal with the assignee in any manner not inconsistent with the terms...
• Section 10173.2.
  When a policy of life insurance is, after the effective date of this section, assigned in writing as security for an indebtedness, the insurer shall,...
• Section 10174.
  Policies of disability insurance, as defined in Section 106, that provide for death benefits, shall, as to those death benefits, be subject to Sections 10172,...
• Section 10175.
  Nothing contained in Sections 10172, 10173 or 10174 shall affect any claim or right to any policy or the proceeds thereof, or payments thereunder, as...
• Section 10175.5.
  (a) No disability insurance contract with a physician and surgeon, physician and surgeon group, or other licensed health care practitioner shall contain any incentive plan that...
• Section 10176.
  (a) In disability insurance, the policy may provide for payment of medical, surgical, chiropractic, physical therapy, speech pathology, audiology, acupuncture, professional mental health, dental, hospital, or...
• Section 10176.1.
  As of the effective date of the amendments to this section enacted at the 1969 Regular Session of the Legislature all disability policies shall be...
• Section 10176.2.
  As an alternative to the exclusion permitted by Section 10176, a disability insurance policy may provide that services of a licensed physical therapist, licensed pursuant...
• Section 10176.25.
  (a) As an alternative to an exclusion permitted by Section 10176, a disability insurance policy may provide that services of a registered dietitian or other nutrition...
• Section 10176.3.
  The amendments to Section 10176 and the addition of Section 10176.2 enacted at the 1971 Regular Session of the Legislature shall be applicable only to...
• Section 10176.4.
  For purposes of establishing the fact of disability in credit disability insurance, disability insurance or life insurance, chiropractors’ certifications of disability when made within the...
• Section 10176.5.
  Disability insurance which is written or issued for delivery outside California in a state the laws of which require recognition of psychologists licensed in such...
• Section 10176.6.
  On and after January 1, 1982, every policy of disability insurance which is issued, amended, delivered, or renewed that covers hospital, medical, or surgical expenses...
• Section 10176.61.
  (a) Every insurer issuing, amending, delivering, or renewing a disability insurance policy on or after January 1, 2000, that covers hospital, medical, or surgical expenses shall...
• Section 10176.7.
  (a) Disability insurance where the insurer is licensed to do business in this state and which provides coverage under a contract of insurance which includes California...
• Section 10176.8.
  A disability insurance policy may provide that services of a respiratory care practitioner certified pursuant to Chapter 8.3 (commencing with Section 3700) of the Division...
• Section 10176.9.
  No policy, contract, or agreement coming within the provisions of this article, issued, entered into or renewed on or after July 1, 1984, shall be...
• Section 10176.10.a.
  (a) On or after January 1, 1994, no disability insurer issuing policies covering hospital, surgical, or medical expenses delivered or renewed in this state or certificates...
• Section 10177.
  (a) A self-insured employee welfare benefit plan may provide for payment of professional mental health expenses upon a reimbursement basis, or for the exclusion of those...
• Section 10177.5.
  A self-insured employee welfare benefit plan which is written or issued for delivery outside California in a state the laws of which require recognition of...
• Section 10177.6.
  On and after the effective date of this section, a self-insured employee welfare benefit plan shall not prohibit the insured from selecting any person who...
• Section 10177.7.
  On and after January 1, 1982, every self-insured employee welfare benefit plan which is issued, amended, delivered, or renewed that covers hospital, medical, or surgical...
• Section 10177.8.
  (a) A self-insured employee welfare benefit plan doing business in this state and providing coverage that includes California residents but that may be written or issued...
• Section 10177.9.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that all persons licensed in this state to engage in the practice of dentistry shall be accorded equal...
• Section 10178.
  No admitted insurer, union trust fund which administers health, medical, or surgical insurance, or employer which has an insurance company administering its health services program,...
• Section 10178.3.
  (a) In order to prevent the improper selling, leasing, or transferring of a health care provider’s contract, it is the intent of the Legislature that every...
• Section 10178.4.
  (a) When a contracting agent sells, leases, or transfers a health provider’s contract to a payor, the rights and obligations of the provider shall be governed...
• Section 10178.5.
  (a) Every self-insured employee welfare benefit plan issued, amended, or renewed on and after January 1, 1987, that offers coverage for medical transportation services, shall contain...
• Section 10179.
  A disability insurer that offers or provides coverage for any services that are legally within the scope of the practice of podiatric medicine, as defined...
• Section 10180.
  (a) A disability insurer which negotiates and enters into a contract with professional providers to provide services at alternative rates of payment pursuant to Section 10133...

Last modified: October 22, 2018