Pennsylvania Code
Title 31 - INSURANCE
Part IV - Life Insurance
Chapter 90f - INDIVIDUAL IMMINENT DEATH/LIFETIME HEALTH CARE FACILITY CONFINEMENT BENEFITS PROVIDED AS ACCELERATED DEATH BENEFIT OR SETTLEMENT OF DEATH BENEFIT; PROVIDED BY RIDERS OR BUILT INTO POLICIES-STATEMENT OF POLICY
Section 90f.4 - Exclusions and restrictions
Universal Citation: 31 PA Code ยง 90f.4
Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
(a) The form contains none or one or more of the following exclusions and restrictions:
(1) War, declared or undeclared, or an act of
war, whether or not serving in the military forces or a civilian noncombatant
unit serving with the forces.
(2)
Active duty as a member of the armed forces of any nation.
(3) Committing an assault or felony, whether
sane or insane.
(4) Participating
in a riot or insurrection.
(5) A
fight in which the insured is a voluntary participant.
(6) Suicide or attempted suicide, whether
sane or insane.
(7) Intentionally
self-inflicted injury, whether sane or insane.
(8) Engaging in an illegal
occupation.
(9) Travel or flight in
an aircraft or spacecraft or descent from such a craft while in flight, or
subsequent drowning, if the insured is a pilot, officer or crew member of the
craft; is giving or receiving aviation training or instruction; has any duties
on or relating to the craft; or is being flown for the purpose of descent from
the craft while in flight.
(10)
Voluntary taking or injection of drugs, unless prescribed or administered by a
licensed physician. The wording "taken as prescribed" or "taken in the manner
prescribed" is not present.
(11)
Voluntary taking or injection of drugs, whether legal or illegal, unless
prescribed or administered by a licensed physician. The wording "taken as
prescribed" or "taken in the manner prescribed" is not present.
(12) The voluntary taking of any drugs,
prescribed for the insured by a licensed physician and intentionally not taken
as prescribed.
(13) The voluntary
taking of any drugs, whether legal or illegal, prescribed for the insured by a
licensed physician and intentionally not taken as prescribed.
(14) Sensitivity to drugs, voluntarily taken,
unless prescribed by a physician.
(15) Sensitivity to drugs, whether legal or
illegal, voluntarily taken, unless prescribed by a physician.
(16) Drug addiction, unless addiction results
from the voluntary taking of drugs prescribed or administered by a licensed
physician or from the involuntary taking of drugs.
(17) Drug addiction, unless addiction results
from the voluntary taking of drugs, whether legal or illegal, prescribed or
administered by a licensed physician or from the involuntary taking of drugs,
whether legal or illegal.
(18)
Chronic alcoholism.
(19) Loss
resulting directly or indirectly from the voluntary taking of alcohol alone or
in combination with a drug, medication or sedative when this action results in
legal intoxication as defined by Pennsylvania law. The insurer provides a
certification that the Pennsylvania legal definition for intoxication will be
used if the form does not refer to "intoxication as defined by Pennsylvania
law."
(b) The form contains none of the following exclusions and restrictions:
(1) Active duty as a member of the armed
forces of any nation.
(2) Riot or
insurrection.
(3) Gunshot or pistol
wound, unless unintentionally caused by someone else.
(4) Gunshot or pistol wound, unless
intentionally or unintentionally caused by someone else.
(5) Travel in any kind of military aircraft
or seacraft or aircraft or seacraft operated for the armed forces.
(6) Air travel.
(7) Air travel except as a fare paying
passenger on a regularly scheduled commercial airline.
(8) Illegal drug use.
(9) Drug addiction.
(10) Involuntary taking of drugs or
poison.
(11) Voluntary taking of
drugs or poison.
(12) Preexisting
conditions.
(13) Requirement that
the form be in force for a specific period of time prior to eligibility for
coverage.
(14) Alzheimer's Disease
or another disorder with a demonstrable organic origin.
(15) Disease resulting from the failure of
the insured to follow accepted medical advice as required to prevent the
condition.
(16) Other exclusions or
restrictions that are unfair or unduly restrictive.
This section cited in 31 Pa. Code § 90f.3 (relating to benefit design).
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