Illinois General Assembly - Illinois Compiled Statutes

Updating the database of the Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS) is an ongoing process. Recent laws may not yet be included in the ILCS database, but they are found on this site as Public Acts soon after they become law. For information concerning the relationship between statutes and Public Acts, refer to the Guide.

Because the statute database is maintained primarily for legislative drafting purposes, statutory changes are sometimes included in the statute database before they take effect. If the source note at the end of a Section of the statutes includes a Public Act that has not yet taken effect, the version of the law that is currently in effect may have already been removed from the database and you should refer to that Public Act to see the changes made to the current law.

215 ILCS 5/356d

(215 ILCS 5/356d) (from Ch. 73, par. 968d)

Sec. 356d.

Conversion privileges for insured former spouses.

(1) No policy
of accident and health insurance providing coverage of
hospital and/or medical expense on either an expense incurred basis or
other than an expense incurred basis, which in addition to covering the
insured also provides coverage to the spouse of the insured shall
contain a provision for termination of coverage for a spouse covered
under the policy solely as a result of a break in the marital
relationship except by reason of an entry of a valid judgment of dissolution
of marriage between the parties.

(2) Every policy which contains a provision for termination of coverage
of the spouse upon dissolution of marriage shall contain a provision to the
effect that upon the entry of a valid judgment of dissolution of marriage
between the insured parties the spouse whose marriage was dissolved
shall be entitled to have issued to
him or her, without evidence of insurability, upon application made to
the company within 60 days following the entry of such judgment, and upon
the payment of the appropriate premium, an individual policy of accident
and health insurance.  Such policy shall provide the coverage then being
issued by the insurer which is most nearly similar to, but not greater
than, such terminated coverages.  Any and all probationary and/or
waiting periods set forth in such policy shall be considered as being
met to the extent coverage was in force under the prior policy.

(3) The requirements of this Section shall apply to all policies
delivered or issued for delivery on or after the 60th day following the
effective date of this Section.

(Source: P.A. 84-545.)