33-22-202. Required provisions -- captions -- omissions -- substitutions -- order. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), each policy delivered or issued for delivery to any person in this state must contain the provisions specified in 33-22-204 through 33-22-215, as those provisions appear. However, the insurer may, at its option, substitute for one or more of the provisions corresponding provisions of different wording approved by the commissioner and not less favorable in any respect to the insured or the beneficiary. Each provision must be preceded by the applicable caption shown or, at the option of the insurer, by the appropriate individual or group captions or subcaptions as the commissioner may approve.

(2) If any provision is in whole or in part inapplicable to or inconsistent with the coverage provided by a particular form of policy, the insurer, with the approval of the commissioner, shall omit from the policy any inapplicable provision or part of a provision and shall modify any inconsistent provision or part of a provision in a manner that makes the provision contained in the policy consistent with the coverage provided by the policy.

(3) The provisions that are the subject of 33-22-204 through 33-22-215, 33-22-221 through 33-22-230, and 33-22-232 or any corresponding provisions used in accordance with the cited sections must be printed in the consecutive order of the provisions in the sections. However, at the option of the insurer, any provision may appear as a unit in any part of the policy with other provisions to which it may be logically related if the resulting policy is not in whole or in part unintelligible, uncertain, ambiguous, abstruse, or likely to mislead a person to whom the policy is offered, delivered, or issued.

History: En. Secs. 353, 378, Ch. 286, L. 1959; R.C.M. 1947, 40-4003, 40-4028; amd. Sec. 26, Ch. 198, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 31, Ch. 451, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 59, Ch. 379, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 26, L. 2019.