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2017 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 59A - Insurance Code
Article 20 - Life Insurance and Annuity Contracts
Section 59A-20-16 - Incontestability; excluded or restricted coverage; after reinstatement.

Universal Citation: NM Stat § 59A-20-16 (2017)
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59A-20-16. Incontestability; excluded or restricted coverage; after reinstatement.

A. A clause in any life insurance policy providing that the policy shall be incontestable after a specified period shall preclude only a contest of the validity of the policy, and shall not preclude the assertion at any time of defenses based upon provisions in the policy which exclude or restrict coverage, whether or not such exclusions or restrictions are excepted in such clause.

B. The reinstatement of a life insurance policy, whether heretofore or hereafter issued in this state, shall be incontestable after the same period following reinstatement and with the same conditions and exceptions, as provided in the policy with respect to incontestability thereof.

History: Laws 1984, ch. 127, 381.

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