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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 273 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1960 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1986, chapter 562.<\/p>","references":[{"id":77746,"section_number":"38.2-3324","catch_line":"Standard provisions required; exceptions","order_by":null,"url":"\/38.2-3324\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":73575,"section_number":"38.2-3332","catch_line":"Right to individual policy upon termination of employment or membership","order_by":null,"url":"\/38.2-3332\/"},{"id":63366,"section_number":"38.2-3333","catch_line":"Right to individual policy upon termination of group policy or elimination of class of insured persons","order_by":null,"url":"\/38.2-3333\/"}],"permalink":{"id":214801,"object_type":"law","relational_id":80545,"identifier":"38.2-3334","token":"38.2\/33\/2\/38.2-3334","url":"\/38.2-3334\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/38.2-3334\/","token":"38.2\/33\/2\/38.2-3334","dublin_core":{"Title":"Death after termination of group insurance and before issuance of individual policy","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 38.2-3334","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Each group life <span class=\"dictionary\">insurance<\/span> policy shall contain a provision that if a <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span> insured under the group policy dies during the period within which he is entitled to have an individual policy issued to him in accordance with \u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Right to individual policy upon termination of employment or membership\" href=\"\/38.2-3332\/\">38.2-3332<\/a> or \u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Right to individual policy upon termination of group policy or elimination of class of insured persons\" href=\"\/38.2-3333\/\">38.2-3333<\/a> and before the individual policy has become effective, the amount of life <span class=\"dictionary\">insurance<\/span> that he would have been entitled to have issued to him under an individual policy shall be payable as a claim under the group policy, whether or not application for the individual policy or the payment of the first premium was made.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDEATH AFTER TERMINATION OF GROUP INSURANCE AND BEFORE ISSUANCE OF INDIVIDUAL\nPOLICY (\u00a7 38.2-3334)\n\nEach group life insurance policy shall contain a provision that if a person\ninsured under the group policy dies during the period within which he is\nentitled to have an individual policy issued to him in accordance with \u00a7\n38.2-3332 or \u00a7 38.2-3333 and before the individual policy has become effective,\nthe amount of life insurance that he would have been entitled to have issued to\nhim under an individual policy shall be payable as a claim under the group\npolicy, whether or not application for the individual policy or the payment of\nthe first premium was made.\n\nHISTORY: 1960, c. 273, \u00a7 38.1-428.3; 1986, c. 562.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}