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2023 Delaware Code
Title 18 - Insurance Code
Chapter 23. UNFAIR PRACTICES IN THE INSURANCE BUSINESS
§ 2316. Refusal to issue policy to blind or deaf persons prohibited.
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18 DE Code § 2316 (2023)
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§ 2316. Refusal to issue policy to blind or deaf persons prohibited.
(a) No insurer authorized to issue policies of accident and sickness insurance in the State shall refuse, for the reason of blindness or deafness, to issue an individual policy of accident and sickness insurance, which provides hospital expense and surgical expense coverage, to any person residing in the State.
(b) No insurer authorized to issue life insurance policies in the State shall refuse, for the sole reason of blindness or deafness, to issue a policy of individual life insurance on the life of any such person residing in the State.
61 Del. Laws, c. 216, § 1;
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