PART VI. 
REQUIRED PROVISIONS AND BENEFITS



 



§432:1-601  Contract limitations for
mentally retarded and handicapped children.  All individual and group
hospital or medical service plan contracts, delivered or issued for delivery in
this State after May 8, 1968, which provide that coverage of a dependent child
shall terminate upon attainment of the limiting age for dependent children
specified in the contract 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 (1) incapable of self-sustaining
employment by reason of mental retardation or physical handicap, and (2)
chiefly dependent upon the policyholder, subscriber or employee as the case may
be, for support and maintenance, provided proof of such incapacity and
dependency is furnished to the hospital service or medical indemnity
association by the policyholder, subscriber or employee within thirty-one days
of the child's attainment of the limiting age and subsequently as may be
required by such association. [L 1987, c 347, pt of §2]