20-1407. Handicapped children
A group hospital or medical expense insurance policy delivered or issued for
delivery in this state more than one hundred twenty days after the effective date of this
section, which provides that coverage of a dependent child of an employee or other member
of the covered group shall terminate upon attainment of the limiting age for dependent
children specified in the policy, shall also provide in substance that attainment of such
limiting age shall not operate to terminate the coverage of such child while the child is
and continues to be both incapable of self-sustaining employment by reason of mental
retardation or physical handicap and chiefly dependent upon the employee or member for
support and maintenance. Proof of such incapacity and dependency shall be furnished to
the insurer by the employee or member within thirty-one days of the child's attainment of
the limiting age and subsequently as may be required by the insurer, but not more
frequently than annually after the two-year period following the child's attainment of
the limiting age.
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