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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77746</law_id><section_number>38.2-3324</section_number><catch_line>Standard provisions required; exceptions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="38.2">Insurance</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="33">Life Insurance Policies</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Group Life Insurance Policies</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> No group life insurance policy shall be delivered or issued for delivery in this Commonwealth unless it contains in substance the standard provisions prescribed in this article. The standard provisions required for individual life <span class="dictionary">insurance policies</span> shall not apply to group life <span class="dictionary">insurance policies</span>. <a id="paragraph-278792" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3324/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If a group life insurance policy is not term insurance, it shall contain a nonforfeiture provision that in the <span class="dictionary">opinion</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> is <span class="dictionary">equitable</span> to the insured <span class="dictionary">persons</span> and to the policyholder. This subsection shall not be construed to require that group life <span class="dictionary">insurance policies</span> contain the same nonforfeiture provisions as are required for individual life <span class="dictionary">insurance policies</span>. <a id="paragraph-278793" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3324/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The provisions of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Payment of benefits" href="/38.2-3330/">38.2-3330</a>, subsection A of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Individual certificates" href="/38.2-3331/">38.2-3331</a>, and &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Right to individual policy upon termination of employment or membership" href="/38.2-3332/">38.2-3332</a> through <a class="law" title="Death after termination of group insurance and before issuance of individual policy" href="/38.2-3334/">38.2-3334</a> shall not apply to policies issued pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Group life insurance requirements" href="/38.2-3318.1/">38.2-3318.1</a> B or group life <span class="dictionary">insurance contracts</span> in which the insurable interest is as described in subdivision 3 of subsection B of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Insurable interest required; life, accident and sickness insurance" href="/38.2-301/">38.2-301</a>. <a id="paragraph-278794" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3324/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 38-429, 38-431; 1952, c. 317, &#xA7; 38.1-424; 1960, c. 273; 1968, c. 282; 1970, c. 145; 1986, c. 562; 1993, c. 105; 1998, c. 154.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
