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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".11" citation="COMAR 31.04.17.11" title_num="31" subtitle_num="04" chapter_num="17" heading="Self-Destruction or Self-Inflicted Injury.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>In any group life insurance policy, or in any provisions in either a life insurance policy or a certificate relating to additional disability benefits or to additional benefits in the event of death by accident or accidental means:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>If the insurer desires to exclude self-destruction or self-inflicted injury, or both, regardless whether intentional or unintentional, language such as “self-destruction and/or self-inflicted injury, intentional or unintentional” or “self-destruction and/or self-inflicted injury, voluntary or involuntary”, should be used.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>If the insurer desires to exclude only suicide or intentional self-inflicted injury, or both, language such as “suicide”, “intentional self-destruction”, “voluntary self-destruction”, “intentional self-inflicted injury”, and/or “voluntary self-inflicted injury” should be used. The insurer, at its option, may also add the language “while sane or insane”.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>In nonprofit health service plan forms and health insurance forms, including certificates of health insurance issued by fraternal benefit societies, the carrier may not exclude unintentional self-destruction or unintentional self-inflicted injury, but may exclude self-destruction or self-inflicted injury by an insane person.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>