Sec. 1131.111. RIGHT TO INDIVIDUAL POLICY ON TERMINATION OF COVERAGE UNDER GROUP POLICY

(a) A group life insurance policy must provide that if the policy terminates or is amended so as to terminate the insurance of a class of insured individuals, each individual insured under the policy on the date of the termination or amendment whose insurance terminates and who has been insured under the policy for at least five years before the date of the termination or amendment is entitled to have the insurer issue to the individual an individual life insurance policy, subject to the conditions and limitations provided by Section 1131.110.

(b) Notwithstanding Section 1131.110(e), a group life insurance 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 individual's life insurance coverage that ceases because of the termination or amendment of the group policy, less the amount of any life insurance for which the individual is or becomes eligible under any group policy issued or reinstated by the same or another insurer not later than the 31st day after the date of the termination or amendment; or

(2) $2,000.

(c) This section does not apply to:

(1) a policy issued to a creditor to insure the creditor's debtors; or

(2) a policy to which Section 1131.703 applies.

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 2, eff. June 1, 2003.