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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="27-208" title_number="27" title_name="Unfair Trade Practices and Other Prohibited Practices" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Unfair Methods of Competition and Unfair and Deceptive Acts or Practices">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person may not make or allow unfair discrimination between individuals of the same class and equal expectation of life in:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the rates charged for a contract of life insurance or an annuity contract;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the dividends or other benefits payable on a contract of life insurance or an annuity contract; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>any of the other terms or conditions of a contract of life insurance or an annuity contract.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, an insurer may not make or allow a differential in ratings, premium payments, or dividends for contracts of life insurance or annuity contracts for a reason based on the blindness or other physical handicap or disability of an applicant or policyholder.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Actuarial justification for the differential may be considered for a physical handicap or disability other than blindness or hearing impairment.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Unless there is actuarial justification, an insurer may not refuse to insure or make or allow a differential in ratings, premium payments, or dividends in connection with life insurance and annuity contracts solely because the applicant or policyholder has the sickle–cell trait, thalassemia–minor trait, hemoglobin C trait, Tay–Sachs trait, or a genetic trait that is harmless in itself.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>With respect to a life insurance contract, an insurer may not refuse to insure, refuse to continue to insure, limit the amount or extent or kind of coverage available to an individual, or charge an individual a different rate for the same coverage solely for reasons associated with an applicant’s or insured’s past lawful travel experiences.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Except as provided in subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, with respect to a life insurance contract, an insurer may not refuse to insure, refuse to continue to insure, limit the amount or extent or kind of coverage available to an individual, or charge an individual a different rate for the same coverage solely for reasons associated with an applicant’s or insured’s future lawful travel.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>Subparagraph (i) of this paragraph does not prohibit an insurer from excluding or limiting coverage of specific future lawful travel, or charging a differential rate for such coverage, when bona fide differences in risk or exposure have been substantiated by the use of relevant data from at least one independent reliable source, including statistical or other mathematical analysis of available data that establishes a material variation in actual or reasonably anticipated experience that correlates to the risk of specific future lawful travel.</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Travel advisories issued by the United States Department of State do not qualify as the sole source of data for purposes of this subparagraph.</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>An insurer shall:</text>
        </level>
        <level label="A">
          <text>maintain the data and documents that support the insurer’s determination that bona fide differences in risk or exposure exist; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="B">
          <text>make the data and documents available on request by the Commissioner.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person may not make or allow unfair discrimination between individuals of the same class and of essentially the same hazard:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>in the amount of premium, policy fees, or rates charged for a policy or contract of health insurance;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>in the benefits payable under a policy or contract of health insurance;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>in any of the terms or conditions of a policy or contract of health insurance; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>in any other manner.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, an insurer may not make or allow a differential in ratings, premium payments, or dividends for a reason based on the sex of an applicant or policyholder unless there is actuarial justification for the differential.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Except as provided in § 27-909 of this title and notwithstanding any other provision of this section, an insurer may not make or allow a differential in ratings, premium payments, or dividends for contracts of health insurance for a reason based on the blindness or other physical handicap or disability of an applicant or policyholder.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Except as provided in § 27-909 of this title, actuarial justification for the differential may be considered for a physical handicap or disability other than blindness or hearing impairment.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
