Every health insurance policy issued under a group insurance plan and by an insurance company, hospital service corporation, medical service corporation, health care center or fraternal benefit society, delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in this state shall allow the spouse of any employee participating in such or any other group insurance plan offered by the same employer to be covered as an employee in addition to being covered as a dependent of such participating employee, except that benefits provided under such combined coverage of the employee as an employee and as a dependent shall not be in excess of one hundred per cent of the charge for the covered expense or service. The provisions of this section shall apply only where spouses are employed by the same employer and by reason of their employment are both participating in a group insurance plan. Nothing in this section shall alter or impair existing group health insurance policies or contracts that have been established pursuant to an agreement that resulted from collective bargaining, and the provisions required by this section shall become effective upon the next regular renewal and completion of such collective bargaining agreement.

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 38a-541

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Insurance: means any agreement to pay a sum of money, provide services or any other thing of value on the happening of a particular event or contingency or to provide indemnity for loss in respect to a specified subject by specified perils in return for a consideration. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
  • insurance company: includes any person or combination of persons doing any kind or form of insurance business other than a fraternal benefit society, and shall include a receiver of any insurer when the context reasonably permits. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
  • Policy: means any document, including attached endorsements and riders, purporting to be an enforceable contract, which memorializes in writing some or all of the terms of an insurance contract. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
  • State: means any state, district, or territory of the United States. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1