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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".11" citation="COMAR 31.13.03.11" title_num="31" subtitle_num="13" chapter_num="03" heading="Underwriting Requirements for Insurance Prima Facie Premium Rates.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The prima facie premium rates in Regulation .10 of this chapter assume that contracts providing credit involuntary unemployment benefit insurance do not require evidence of individual insurability from any eligible debtor electing to purchase coverage except:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>A requirement that the debtor has been employed full-time for not more than 30 days before the effective date of coverage;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>A requirement that the debtor has not received notice of impending termination or layoff within 60 days before the effective date of coverage; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>That there are no age restrictions, except that coverage may be restricted based on age if:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>There is credit health insurance coverage or credit life insurance coverage on the same debt;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>The credit health insurance coverage or credit life insurance coverage is subject to an age restriction; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>The credit involuntary unemployment benefit insurance is:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Subject to the same age restriction that applies to the credit health insurance coverage; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>If no age restriction applies to the credit health insurance, subject to the same age restriction that applies to the credit life insurance.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Regardless of individual policy or certificate amounts, for underwriting purposes it is assumed that the policy contains no exclusions except the following:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Voluntary forfeiture of salary, wages, or employment income;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Resignation;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Retirement;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Loss of employment as a result of willful or criminal misconduct;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Loss of employment as a result of seasonal employment;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Loss of employment as a result of disability;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Discharge from military; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Loss of self-employment without a declaration of bankruptcy, either of the debtor or of the debtor's business.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Acquisition of Existing Account.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>If an insurer acquires an existing account providing involuntary unemployment benefits on a monthly premium basis or on another basis for which the debtor is charged monthly, the new insurer shall honor all claims for periods of involuntary unemployment commencing on or after the date of takeover and all claims after that which would have been paid under the former policy.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The original insurer shall honor all claims for periods of involuntary unemployment commencing before the date of takeover.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>