This chapter shall apply to all classes of insurance except:

Terms Used In Virginia Code 38.2-300

  • Accident and sickness insurance: means insurance against loss resulting from sickness, or from bodily injury or death by accident or accidental means, or from a combination of any or all of these perils. See Virginia Code 38.2-109
  • Annuities: means all agreements to make periodic payments in specified or calculable sums pursuant to the terms of a contract for a stated period of time or for the life of the person or persons specified in the contract. See Virginia Code 38.2-106
  • insurance policies: shall include contracts of fidelity, indemnity, guaranty and suretyship. See Virginia Code 38.2-100

1. Ocean marine insurance other than private pleasure vessels;

2. Life insurance policies and accident and sickness insurance policies not delivered or issued for delivery in this Commonwealth;

3. Contracts of reinsurance; or

4. Annuities, except as provided for in §§ 38.2-305, 38.2-316 and 38.2-321.

1952, c. 317, § 38.1-328; 1986, c. 562; 1988, cc. 333, 523.