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56-42-102. Purpose Applicability.

(a) The purpose of this chapter is to promote the public interest, to promote the availability of long-term care insurance policies, to protect applicants for long-term care insurance, as defined, from unfair or deceptive sales or enrollment practices, to establish standards for long-term care insurance, to facilitate public understanding and comparison of long-term care insurance policies and to facilitate flexibility and innovation in the development of long-term care insurance coverage.

(b) The requirements of this chapter apply to policies delivered or issued for delivery in this state on or after July 1, 2008. This chapter is not intended to supersede the obligations of entities subject to this chapter to comply with the substance of other applicable insurance laws insofar as they do not conflict with this chapter, except that laws and regulations designed and intended to apply to medicare supplement insurance policies shall not be applied to long-term care insurance.

[Acts 1988, ch. 873, §§ 1, 2; 2008, ch. 1058, § 1.]

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56-42-102. Purpose Applicability.

(a) The purpose of this chapter is to promote the public interest, to promote the availability of long-term care insurance policies, to protect applicants for long-term care insurance, as defined, from unfair or deceptive sales or enrollment practices, to establish standards for long-term care insurance, to facilitate public understanding and comparison of long-term care insurance policies and to facilitate flexibility and innovation in the development of long-term care insurance coverage.

(b) The requirements of this chapter apply to policies delivered or issued for delivery in this state on or after July 1, 2008. This chapter is not intended to supersede the obligations of entities subject to this chapter to comply with the substance of other applicable insurance laws insofar as they do not conflict with this chapter, except that laws and regulations designed and intended to apply to medicare supplement insurance policies shall not be applied to long-term care insurance.

[Acts 1988, ch. 873, §§ 1, 2; 2008, ch. 1058, § 1.]

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56-42-102. Purpose Applicability.

(a) The purpose of this chapter is to promote the public interest, to promote the availability of long-term care insurance policies, to protect applicants for long-term care insurance, as defined, from unfair or deceptive sales or enrollment practices, to establish standards for long-term care insurance, to facilitate public understanding and comparison of long-term care insurance policies and to facilitate flexibility and innovation in the development of long-term care insurance coverage.

(b) The requirements of this chapter apply to policies delivered or issued for delivery in this state on or after July 1, 2008. This chapter is not intended to supersede the obligations of entities subject to this chapter to comply with the substance of other applicable insurance laws insofar as they do not conflict with this chapter, except that laws and regulations designed and intended to apply to medicare supplement insurance policies shall not be applied to long-term care insurance.

[Acts 1988, ch. 873, §§ 1, 2; 2008, ch. 1058, § 1.]