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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66416</law_id><section_number>38.2-3354</section_number><catch_line>Prohibited provisions</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 if it contains any of the following provisions:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Limiting the time within which any action at <span class="dictionary">law</span> or in <span class="dictionary">equity</span> may be commenced to less than one year after the <span class="dictionary">cause of action</span> accrues; <a id="paragraph-241088" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3354/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> For any mode of <span class="dictionary">settlement</span> at maturity of less value than the amount insured by the policy plus any dividend additions to the policy, less (i) any indebtedness to the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> on or secured by the policy and (ii) any premium that may by the terms of the policy be deducted. This subdivision shall not apply to any nonforfeiture provision that employs the cash value less any indebtedness, to purchase paid up or extended <span class="dictionary">insurance</span>, and shall not prohibit the issuance of policies providing for a limitation in the amount payable under certain specified conditions; or <a id="paragraph-241089" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3354/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> To the effect that the agent soliciting the <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> is the agent of the <span class="dictionary">person</span> insured under the policy, or making the acts or representations of the agent binding upon the <span class="dictionary">person</span> insured under the policy. <a id="paragraph-241090" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3354/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 38-437; 1952, c. 317, &#xA7; 38.1-422; 1986, c. 562.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
