Md. Code, Insurance § 17-307
This is the official text of Md. Code, Insurance § 17-307, part of Maryland’s Code, Insurance — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§17–307.
Official statutory text
Each policy of group life insurance shall contain a provision that any sum due because of the death of the insured is payable to the beneficiary designated by the insured, subject to:
(1) the provisions of the policy as to payment of all or part of the sum if a designated beneficiary is not alive at the death of the insured; and
(2) any right that the insurer reserves in the policy and sets forth in the certificate to pay at its option a part of the sum, not exceeding $2,500, to a person that the insurer considers equitably entitled to it for having incurred funeral or other expenses incident to the insured’s death or last illness.
(1) the provisions of the policy as to payment of all or part of the sum if a designated beneficiary is not alive at the death of the insured; and
(2) any right that the insurer reserves in the policy and sets forth in the certificate to pay at its option a part of the sum, not exceeding $2,500, to a person that the insurer considers equitably entitled to it for having incurred funeral or other expenses incident to the insured’s death or last illness.
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