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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72072</law_id><section_number>38.2-3401</section_number><catch_line>Forms of insurance authorized</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-4214</reference><reference>38.2-4319</reference><reference>38.2-4509</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> Accident and sickness <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> shall be issued only in the following forms: <a id="paragraph-259681" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3401/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Individual accident and sickness policies; or <a id="paragraph-259682" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3401/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Group accident and sickness policies. <a id="paragraph-259683" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3401/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Pursuant to the authority granted by &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Rules and regulations; orders" href="/38.2-223/">38.2-223</a>, the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> may promulgate such regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to govern <span class="dictionary">insurers</span>&#x2019; practices with regard to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) or the presence of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), including advertising practices, underwriting practices, policy provisions, claim practices, or other practices with regard to individual or group accident and sickness <span class="dictionary">insurance policies</span> delivered or issued for delivery in the Commonwealth of Virginia and certificates or <span class="dictionary">evidences</span> of coverage, issued under any <span class="dictionary">contract</span> delivered or issued for delivery in the Commonwealth of Virginia. <a id="paragraph-259684" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3401/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1986, c. 562; 1989, c. 653.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
