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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63366</law_id><section_number>38.2-3333</section_number><catch_line>Right to individual policy upon termination of group policy or elimination of class of insured persons</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-3331</reference><reference>38.2-3334</reference><reference>51.1-505</reference></referred_to_by><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><p>Each group life <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> policy shall contain a provision that if the group policy terminates or is amended so as to terminate the <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> of any class of insured <span class="dictionary">persons</span>, every <span class="dictionary">person</span>, other than a <span class="dictionary">minor</span> child insured pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Group life insurance coverages of spouses, dependent children, and other persons" href="/38.2-3323/">38.2-3323</a>, whose <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> terminates and who has been insured for at least five years prior to the termination date shall be entitled to have the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> <span class="dictionary">issue</span> him an individual life <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> policy. The individual life policy shall be subject to the conditions and limitations set forth in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Right to individual policy upon termination of employment or membership" href="/38.2-3332/">38.2-3332</a>. However, the group policy may contain a provision that the amount of the individual policy shall not exceed the smaller of (i) the amount of the <span class="dictionary">person</span>&#x2019;s life <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> protection ceasing because of the termination or amendment of the group policy, less the amount of any life <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> for which he is or becomes eligible under any group policy issued or reinstated by the same or another <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> within 31 days after the termination, or (ii) $10,000.</p></section></text><history>1960, c. 273, &#xA7; 38.1-428.2; 1986, c. 562.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
