"Blanket accident and health insurance" is that form of accident insurance, health insurance, or both, covering groups of persons as enumerated in one of the following subsections under a policy or contract issued to:
1. Any common carrier or to any operator, owner or lessee of a means of transportation, who or which shall be deemed the policyholder, covering a group of persons who may become passengers defined by reference to their travel status on the common carrier or means of transportation.
2. An employer, who shall be deemed the policyholder, covering any group of employees, dependents or guests, defined by reference to specified hazards incident to an activity or activities or operations of the policyholder.
3. A college, school or other institution of learning, a school district or districts, or school jurisdictional unit, or to the head, principal or governing board of any such educational unit, who or which shall be deemed the policyholder, covering students, teachers or employees.
4. A religious, charitable, recreational, educational or civic organization, or branch thereof, which shall be deemed the policyholder, covering any group of members or participants defined by reference to specified hazards incident to an activity or activities or operations sponsored or supervised by the policyholder.
5. A sports team, camp or sponsor thereof, which shall be deemed the policyholder, covering members, campers, employees, officials or supervisors.
6. A volunteer fire department, organization providing first aid, organization for emergency management or other such volunteer organization, which shall be deemed the policyholder, covering any group of members or participants defined by reference to specified hazards incident to an activity or activities or operations sponsored or supervised by the policyholder.
7. A newspaper or other publisher, which shall be deemed the policyholder, covering its carriers.
8. An association, including a labor union, which has a constitution and bylaws and which has been organized and is maintained in good faith for purposes other than that of obtaining insurance, which shall be deemed the policyholder, covering any group of members or participants defined by reference to specified hazards incident to an activity or activities or operations sponsored or supervised by the policyholder.
9. Cover any other risk or class of risks which, in the discretion of the Commissioner, may be properly eligible for blanket accident and health insurance. The discretion of the Commissioner may be exercised on the basis of an individual risk or class of risks, or both.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1768; A 1983, 177; 2001, 2221)