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Session 107 - (1987-1988)Printer Friendly
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S 0910 General Bill, By Saleeby, McConnell and T.H. Pope
Similar (H 3332)
    A Bill to amend Section 38-71-190, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, relating to the insurer's right of subrogation in policies of accident and health insurance, so as to allow the chief insurance commissioner to disallow subrogation if, after petition by the insured, he determines the subrogation to be inequitable; to amend the 1976 Code by adding Section 38-71-335 so as to prohibit the writing of individual or family accident, health, or accident and health insurance policies which allow the insurer to cancel the policy on a date other than the anniversary or premium due date and policies which are optionally renewable and to require thirty-one days' written notice of nonrenewal; to amend Section 38-71-340, relating to mandatory provisions in accident, health, or accident and health insurance policies, so as to revise the required provisions; to amend Section 38-71-370, relating to optional provisions in life insurance policies, so as to revise the required provisions; to amend Section 38-71-610, relating to notice of premiums due for accident or health insurance policies, so as to revise a term; to amend the 1976 Code by adding Section 38-71-735 so as to provide mandatory provisions for group accident, group health, or group accident and health insurance policies; to amend Section 38-71-810, relating to readjustment of premiums for group accident, group health, or group accident and health insurance policies, so as to clarify terms; to amend Section 38-71-1010, relating to the definition of blanket accident and health insurance, so as to expand the definition; to amend Section 38-71-1110, relating to the definition of accident and health insurance in a franchise plan, so as to revise the definition; to amend Sections 38-55-50 and 38-71-200, relating to the prohibition on discrimination between insureds of the same class or hazard, so as to allow statutory exceptions; to amend Section 38-57-190, relating to types of insurance exempt from restrictions on preferences, so as to revise the exempt categories; to amend the 1976 Code by adding Section 38-55-180 so as to provide for the safeguarding of premiums of industrial insurance; and to repeal Sections 38-71-130, 38-71-180, 38-71-380, 38-71-390, 38-71-400, 38-71-820, and Article 7, Chapter 71 relating to accident and health insurance.
10/12/87Senate Prefiled
10/12/87Senate Referred to Committee on Banking and Insurance
01/12/88Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-219
01/12/88Senate Referred to Committee on Banking and Insurance SJ-22



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