Exams / Montana Accident and Disability Insurance License / Mont. Code Ann. §33-22-508

Mont. Code Ann. §33-22-508 — what it says, and how the exam tests it

This section is cited by 6 of our practice questions and is tested on the Montana Accident and Disability Insurance License.

The text

33-22-508. Conversion on termination of eligibility. (1) A group disability insurance policy or certificate of insurance must contain a provision that if the insurance or any portion of the insurance on a person or the person's dependents or family members covered under the policy ceases because of termination of the person's membership in a group eligible for coverage under the policy, because of termination of the person's employment, as a result of a person's employer discontinuing the employer's business, or as a result of a person's employer discontinuing the group disability insurance policy and not providing for any other group disability insurance or plan and if the person had been insured for a period of 3 months and is not insured under another major medical disability insurance policy or plan, the person is entitled to have issued to the person by the insurer, without evidence of insurability, group disability coverage or an individual disability policy or, in the absence of an individual disability policy issued by the insurer, a group disability policy issued by the insurer on the person or on the person's dependents or family members if application for the individual policy is made and the first premium tendered to the insurer within 31 days after the termination of the group coverage. (2) A group insurer may meet the requirements of this section by contracting with another insurer to issue conversion policies as described in subsections (5) and (6). The conversion carrier must be authorized to act as an insurer in this state, and the commissioner shall approve the conversion policies pursuant to 33-1-501. (3) The individual policy or group policy, at the option of the insured, may be on any form then customarily issued by the insurer to individual or group policyholders, with the exception of a policy the eligibility for which is determined by affiliation other than by employment with a common entity. In addition, the insurer or conversion carrier shall make available a conversion policy as required by subsection (6). (4) The premium for the individual policy or group policy must be at no more than 200% of the insurer's customary rate applicable to the group policy being terminated at the time of the conversion. If the person entitled to conversion under this section has been insured for more than 3 years, the premium may not be more than…

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How it comes up on the exam

Practice questions written from this section — answers and explanations are in the drill.

  1. Under Montana law, when group disability coverage is converted to an individual or group policy, what must the effective date of the conversion policy ensure?
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  2. A Montana insurer wants to use another insurer to issue conversion policies under the group disability conversion statute. Under Montana law, what requirement must the conversion carrier meet?
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  3. An insurer meets Montana's group disability conversion requirements by contracting with another insurer to issue conversion policies. Which requirement must the conversion carrier satisfy?
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