Incontestability; excluded or restricted coverage; after reinstatement.

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A. A clause in any life insurance policy providing that the policy shall be incontestable after a specified period shall preclude only a contest of the validity of the policy, and shall not preclude the assertion at any time of defenses based upon provisions in the policy which exclude or restrict coverage, whether or not such exclusions or restrictions are excepted in such clause.

B. The reinstatement of a life insurance policy, whether heretofore or hereafter issued in this state, shall be incontestable after the same period following reinstatement and with the same conditions and exceptions, as provided in the policy with respect to incontestability thereof.

History: Laws 1984, ch. 127, § 381.

ANNOTATIONS

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 43 Am. Jur. 2d Insurance § 54; 44 Am. Jur. 2d Insurance, §§ 1155 to 1179.

What constitutes medical or surgical treatment, or the like, within exclusionary clause of accident policy or accidental-death feature of life policy, 56 A.L.R.5th 471.

46 C.J.S. Insurance § 996 et seq.


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