§ 38.2-3547 — Excessive insurance; remedy

Virginia § 38.2-3547

• Jurisdiction: Virginia
• Title 38.2: INSURANCE
• Ch. 35: ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES
• Art. 4: INDUSTRIAL SICK BENEFIT INSURANCE

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A. Any person holding industrial sick benefit insurance policies of several insurers, that, in the aggregate, provide sick benefits in excess of 150 percent of his weekly salary, wages or earnings, shall not be permitted to recover the excess, nor shall the insurer be compelled to pay the excess, unless the existence of all previous policies was admitted by the insured in all applications for insurance in excess of such sum. If by misstatements, or by the failure to admit the existence of previous policies, the insured has obtained such excess additional policies, and has received benefits under such policies in excess of the amount specified above the excess paid may be deducted from the death benefit provided for in the policies.

B. This section shall not apply in any case where the application for the excess policy did not contain any question in regard to the amount of insurance already carried by the applicant, nor where the application blank was printed in less than ten-point type.

Legislative History

Code 1950, § 38-360; 1952, c. 317, § 38.1-486; 1986, c. 562.