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215 ILCS 5/356a

    (215 ILCS 5/356a) (from Ch. 73, par. 968a)
    Sec. 356a. Form of policy.

(1) No individual policy of accident and health insurance shall be delivered or issued for delivery to any person in this State unless:

(a) the entire money and other considerations

therefor are expressed therein; and

(b) the time at which the insurance takes effect and

terminates is expressed therein; and

(c) it purports to insure only one person, except

that a policy may insure, originally or by subsequent amendment, upon the application of an adult member of a family who shall be deemed the policyholder, any 2 or more eligible members of that family, including husband, wife, dependent children or any children under a specified age which shall not exceed 19 years and any other person dependent upon the policyholder; and

(d) the style, arrangement and over-all appearance of

the policy give no undue prominence to any portion of the text, and unless every printed portion of the text of the policy and of any endorsements or attached papers is plainly printed in light-faced type of a style in general use, the size of which shall be uniform and not less than ten-point with a lower-case unspaced alphabet length not less than one hundred and twenty-point (the "text" shall include all printed matter except the name and address of the insurer, name or title of the policy, the brief description if any, and captions and subcaptions); and

(e) the exceptions and reductions of indemnity are

set forth in the policy and, except those which are set forth in Sections 357.1 through 357.30 of this Act, are printed, at the insurer's option, either included with the benefit provision to which they apply, or under an appropriate caption such as "EXCEPTIONS", or "EXCEPTIONS AND REDUCTIONS", provided that if an exception or reduction specifically applies only to a particular benefit of the policy, a statement of such exception or reduction shall be included with the benefit provision to which it applies; and

(f) each such form, including riders and

endorsements, shall be identified by a form number in the lower left-hand corner of the first page thereof; and

(g) it contains no provision purporting to make any

portion of the charter, rules, constitution, or by-laws of the insurer a part of the policy unless such portion is set forth in full in the policy, except in the case of the incorporation of, or reference to, a statement of rates or classification of risks, or short-rate table filed with the Director.

(2) If any policy is issued by an insurer domiciled in this State for delivery to a person residing in another state, and if the official having responsibility for the administration of the insurance laws of such other state shall have advised the Director that any such policy is not subject to approval or disapproval by such official, the Director may by ruling require that such policy meet the standards set forth in subsection (1) of this Section and in Sections 357.1 through 357.30.

(Source: P.A. 103-718, eff. 7-19-24.)