Georgia Code, Title 33, Chapter 29 - Individual Accident and Sickness Insurance
- § 33-29-1 - "Accident and Sickness Policy" Defined; Applicability of Chapter
(a) As used in this chapter, the term "accident and sickness policy" means any policy insuring against loss resulting from sickness or from bodily...
- § 33-29-2 - Requirements As to Policies Generally
(a) No policy of accident and sickness insurance shall be delivered or issued for delivery in this state unless it meets the following requirements:...
- § 33-29-3 - Required Policy Provisions
(a) Each accident and sickness policy delivered or issued for delivery in this state shall contain the provisions specified in subsection (b) of this...
- § 33-29-3.1 - Coverage for Human Heart Transplants; Optional Endorsement; Requirements; Guidelines
(a) Every insurer authorized to issue individual accident and sickness insurance plans, policies, or contracts shall be required to make available, either as a...
- § 33-29-3.2 - Coverage for Mammograms, Pap Smears, and Prostate Specific Antigen Tests
(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Female at risk" means a woman: (A) Who has a personal history of breast...
- § 33-29-3.3 - Coverage for Bone Marrow Transplants for the Treatment of Breast Cancer and Hodgkin's Disease; Optional Endorsement; Requirements; Guidelines; Applicability
(a) Every insurer authorized to issue individual accident and sickness insurance plans, policies, or contracts shall be required to make available, either as a...
- § 33-29-3.4 - Insurance Coverage for Child Wellness Services
(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Child wellness services" means the periodic review of a child's physical and emotional status...
- § 33-29-4 - Optional Policy Provisions
(a) No accident and sickness policy delivered or issued for delivery in this state shall contain provisions respecting the matters set forth in this...
- § 33-29-5 - Order of Printing of Provisions
The provisions which are the subject of Code Sections 33-29-3 and 33-29-4, or any corresponding provisions which are used in lieu thereof in accordance...
- § 33-29-6 - Provision in Policies for Medical or Surgical Services
(a) The benefits on account of medical or surgical services provided by an individual policy of accident and sickness insurance may be limited by...
- § 33-29-7 - Provision in Policies for Refusal of Renewal Generally
(a) Subject to Code Section 33-29-21, each policy, covered by this chapter, except accident insurance only policies, in which the insurer reserves the right...
- § 33-29-8 - Provision in Policies Renewable or Cancelable At Option of Insurer for Refund of Premiums
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, every insurer delivering or issuing for delivery in this state policies of accident...
- § 33-29-9 - Requirements As to References in Policies to Noncancelable Nature or Guaranteed Renewability Nature; Exception for Certain Matters Concerning Renewability of Individual Accident and Sickness Policies; Rules and Regulations
(a) No policy of accident or sickness insurance shall refer to its noncancelable nature without at the same time disclosing all options the insurer...
- § 33-29-10 - Operation of Provision Establishing Age for Termination of Coverage Generally; Effect of Misstatement of Age of Insured
(a) If any accident and sickness policy delivered or issued for delivery in this state contains a provision establishing, as an age limit or...
- § 33-29-11 - Right of Person to Whom Policy or Contract Issued to Return Policy or Contract and Receive Premium Refund; Effect of Return; Proof of Return
(a) Every individual accident and sickness policy or contract, except single premium nonrenewable policies or contracts, issued for delivery in this state on or...
- § 33-29-12 - Policies Issued for Delivery or Delivered Within State by Foreign or Alien Insurers; Policies of Domestic Insurers Issued for Delivery in Other States or Countries
(a) Any policy of a foreign or alien insurer, when delivered or issued for delivery to any person in this state, may contain any...
- § 33-29-13 - Furnishing of Written Outline of Coverage to Applicants for Insurance; Approval of Outline
Every insurer shall furnish to any applicant for accident and sickness insurance in this state a written outline showing the major coverage of the...
- § 33-29-14 - Application For, and Ownership Of, Policies by Persons Other Than Insured
This chapter shall not be construed as preventing a person other than the insured with a proper insurable interest from making application for and...
- § 33-29-15 - Exemption of Policy Proceeds From Liability for Debts of Insured and Beneficiary
(a) The proceeds or avails of all accident and sickness policies and of provisions providing benefits on account of the insured's disability which are...
- § 33-29-16 - Compliance With Chapter by Attachment of Rider or Endorsement to Policy
The requirements of this chapter may be complied with by the insurer by attaching to the policy such rider or endorsement as may be...
- § 33-29-17 - Validity and Construction of Policies Delivered or Issued for Delivery in Violation of Chapter; Effect of Conflict Between Provisions Subject to Chapter and Other Provisions
(a) No policy provision which is not subject to this chapter shall make a policy, or any portion thereof, less favorable in any respect...
- § 33-29-18 - Franchise Insurance
(a) As used in this Code section, the term "employees" means the officers, managers, and employees and retired employees of the employer and the...
- § 33-29-19 - Rate Modification on Individual Accident and Sickness Policies Providing for Optional Loss Ratio Guarantee
(a) This Code section shall apply only to the filing of rate modifications for individual accident and sickness policies which provide for an optional...
- § 33-29-20 - Insurance Coverage for Treatment of Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction or Surgery for Deformities of Maxilla or Mandible
(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Functional deformity" means a deformity of the bone or joint structure of the maxilla...
- § 33-29-21 - Renewal or Continuation At Option of Insured
Pursuant to the provisions of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, P.L. 104-191, and subject to applicable rules and regulations...
- § 33-29-21.1 - Availability of Accident and Sickness Policy Upon Termination of Dependent Coverage Based on Age of Dependent
Every policy which contains a provision for termination of coverage of a dependent upon the reaching of a certain age shall contain a provision...
- § 33-29-22 - Notice of Premium Increase; Notification of Impact of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
(a) Notice of any premium increase shall be mailed or delivered to each holder of an individual accident and sickness insurance policy not less...
Last modified: October 14, 2016