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A family is not an eligible blanket-health-insurance group under Nevada law. Blanket accident and health insurance is designed for defined groups connected by a common activity, organization, occupation, event, or exposure to a specified hazard. It is not designed as a substitute for ordinary individual or family health insurance.

Nevada specifically recognizes various groups that may be covered under a blanket policy. These include religious, charitable, recreational, educational, and civic organizations; newspaper publishers covering their carriers; and volunteer fire departments or similar emergency organizations covering members or participants. The organization acts as the policyholder, and the covered persons are defined by their relationship to the group activity or specified hazard.

A church is eligible as a religious organization. A newspaper corporation may qualify when covering its carriers. A volunteer fire department is specifically listed as an eligible organization. A family, however, is a private household relationship rather than a qualifying blanket group formed around an authorized organizational purpose or activity.

Study Guide references/topics: blanket accident and health insurance; eligible groups; policyholder; specified hazards; NRS 689B.070 .

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The policyowner normally holds the contractual rights known as incidents of ownership. When the beneficiary designation is revocable, the policyowner may generally change the beneficiary without obtaining that beneficiary’s consent, provided the policy is in force and no assignment or court order restricts the right. The owner may also ordinarily exercise other ownership rights, such as selecting premium-payment modes, assigning the policy, taking a policy loan when available, surrendering the policy for cash value, and electing settlement options.

The insured and the owner can be the same person, but they do not have to be. The insured is the person whose life is covered and whose death triggers payment of the death benefit. A beneficiary is the person or entity designated to receive policy proceeds. Those roles must be kept separate on examination questions. A revocable beneficiary has only an expectancy until the insured dies; by contrast, an irrevocable beneficiary usually has a vested interest that limits the owner’s ability to change the designation or exercise certain policy rights without consent.

Correctly identifying the owner is essential because ownership determines control of the policy during the insured’s lifetime.

References/topics from the Study Guide: Policyowners’ Rights; Beneficiary Designations; Revocable and Irrevocable Beneficiaries; Assignments.

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Nevada group-life law protects an insured person during the conversion interval. If a person covered under a group life policy dies during the period in which the person was entitled to obtain an individual conversion policy—and before that individual policy becomes effective—the amount of life insurance the person could have converted is payable as a claim under the group policy. This protection applies whether or not the person submitted the individual-policy application or paid the first premium before death.

The conversion privilege is important because group coverage is usually tied to employment or membership. When eligibility ends, the individual may lose the group policy’s protection. Conversion gives the former insured an opportunity to obtain individual life insurance without new evidence of insurability, subject to the statute and policy terms. The converted amount may be limited by the group policy and applicable law, and the individual policy’s premium is based on the insurer’s conversion rates.

This rule should not be confused with portability. Portability allows continuation of group-style coverage under certain conditions, whereas conversion replaces group coverage with an individual policy. The producer should explain notice requirements, the available conversion amount, deadlines, and premium differences whenever group coverage terminates.

References/topics from the Study Guide: Group Life Insurance; Conversion Privilege; Termination of Employment; NRS 688B.120–688B.130.

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