Md. Code, Insurance § 17-310
This is the official text of Md. Code, Insurance § 17-310, part of Maryland’s Code, Insurance — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§17–310.
Official statutory text
(a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, each policy of group life insurance shall contain a provision that if the group policy terminates or is amended so as to terminate the insurance of a class of insureds, each insured at the date of the termination whose insurance terminates and who has been insured for at least 5 years before the termination date is entitled to have issued to that insured by the insurer an individual policy of life insurance subject to the same conditions and limitations provided in § 17-309 of this subtitle.
(b) The group policy may provide that the amount of an individual policy issued under this section may not exceed the lesser of:
(1) the amount of the insured’s life insurance protection that has terminated, less the amount of life insurance for which the insured is or becomes eligible under a group policy issued or reinstated by the same or another insurer within 31 days after the termination; and
(2) $10,000.
(b) The group policy may provide that the amount of an individual policy issued under this section may not exceed the lesser of:
(1) the amount of the insured’s life insurance protection that has terminated, less the amount of life insurance for which the insured is or becomes eligible under a group policy issued or reinstated by the same or another insurer within 31 days after the termination; and
(2) $10,000.
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