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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>57593</law_id><section_number>38.2-3400</section_number><catch_line>Application of chapter</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>32.1-276.3</reference><reference>38.2-109</reference><reference>38.2-3407.12</reference><reference>38.2-3518</reference><reference>38.2-4123</reference><reference>38.2-4214</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="34">Provisions Relating to Accident and Sickness Insurance</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> This chapter and Chapter 35 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Form of policy" href="/38.2-3500/">38.2-3500</a> et seq.) of this title apply to <span class="dictionary">insurance policies</span> or <span class="dictionary">contracts</span> of the class described in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Accident and sickness" href="/38.2-109/">38.2-109</a> delivered or issued for delivery in this Commonwealth except as provided in subsection B of this section. <a id="paragraph-211034" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3400/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Nothing in this chapter shall apply to or affect: <a id="paragraph-211035" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3400/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Any workers&#x2019; compensation insurance policy; <a id="paragraph-211036" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3400/#B1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Any liability insurance policy with or without supplementary expense coverage, including any motor vehicle liability insurance policy, providing weekly indemnity or other specific benefits to <span class="dictionary">persons</span> who are injured and specific death benefits to dependents, beneficiaries or personal representatives of <span class="dictionary">persons</span> who are killed, irrespective of the legal liability of the insured or any other <span class="dictionary">person</span>; <a id="paragraph-211037" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3400/#B2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Any policy or <span class="dictionary">contract</span> of reinsurance; <a id="paragraph-211038" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3400/#B3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Life insurance or annuities; <a id="paragraph-211039" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3400/#B4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B5" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> Any industrial sick benefit insurance; or <a id="paragraph-211040" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3400/#B5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B6" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> Any credit accident and sickness insurance policy. <a id="paragraph-211041" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3400/#B6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 38-225; 1950, p. 1016; 1952, c. 317, &#xA7;&#xA7; 38.1-347, 38.1-360; 1956, c. 678; 1974, c. 95; 1975, c. 281; 1976, c. 355; 1977, c. 606; 1978, c. 496; 1979, cc. 13, 97; 1980, c. 719; 1986, c. 562.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
