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1999 SESSION


CHAPTER 321
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 38.2-3407.3:1, relating to health insurance; premium arrearages.
[H 2345]
Approved March 22, 1999

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 38.2-3407.3:1 as follows:

§ 38.2-3407.3:1. Premium payment arrearages; order of crediting payments.

Each (i) insurer proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis, (ii) corporation providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts, and (iii) health maintenance organization providing a health care plan for health care services, shall when accepting premium payments in arrears, credit any such payments first to the longest-outstanding arrearage, and then in succession to the most recent arrearage or payment due.