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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65601</law_id><section_number>38.2-3342</section_number><catch_line>Ten-day right to examine policy</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="3">Industrial Life Insurance Policies</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No industrial life <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> policy shall be delivered or issued for delivery in this Commonwealth unless it has printed on it a notice stating in substance that if during a ten-day period from the date the policy is delivered to the policyowner, the policy is surrendered to the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> or its agent with a written request for cancellation, the policy shall be void from the beginning and the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> shall refund any premium paid for the policy. Nothing in this section shall prohibit an <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> from extending the right to examine period to more than ten days if the period is specified in the policy.</p></section></text><history>1977, c. 174, &#xA7; 38.1-410.1; 1986, c. 562.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
