Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 8 Sec. 8084

  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Financial Regulation. See
  • Long-term care insurance: means any insurance policy or rider advertised, marketed, offered, or designed to provide coverage for not less than 12 consecutive months for each covered person on an expense incurred, indemnity, prepaid, or other basis, for one or more necessary or medically necessary diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, or personal care services provided in a setting other than an acute care unit of a hospital. See
  • Policy: means any policy, contract, subscriber agreement, rider, or endorsement delivered or issued for delivery in this State by an insurer; fraternal benefit society; nonprofit health, hospital, or medical service corporation; prepaid health plan; health maintenance organization; or any similar organization. See

§ 8084. Disclosure standards

(a) The Commissioner shall adopt rules establishing standards for full and fair disclosure of the terms of a long-term care insurance policy.

(b) The disclosure standards established under subsection (a) of this section shall include provisions setting forth the manner, content, and required disclosures for the sale of long-term care insurance policies, terms of renewability, initial and subsequent conditions of eligibility, nonduplication of coverage provisions, coverage of dependents, preexisting conditions, termination of insurance, continuation, conversion, probationary periods, limitations, exceptions, reductions, elimination periods, requirements for replacement, recurrent conditions, and definitions of terms. (Added 2003, No. 124 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2005.)