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Ex. AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING-096 Context (guidance or announcement) Primary source read

Company Bulletin 2020-08

Use of temporary death certificates as due proof of death in policies covering preneed funeral contracts and prearrangements

Robert H. Muriel, Director of Insurance · Illinois; Department of Insurance (Sector regulator)

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Context, not an order

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The record

Jurisdiction
Illinois; Department of Insurance · Illinois
Level
Sector regulator
Authority
215 ILCS 5/401
Issued
2020-04-03 Apr. 3, 2020
Effective
2020-04-03
End
For the duration of the disaster proclamations (read as 2020-09-30)
In force
Apr. 3, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q3
Limitation types
Courts and public officesOther
Addressees
  • all insurers issuing policies covering preneed funeral contracts or prearrangements to Illinois residents for payment of burial, funeral, cremation or other disposition of remains
Functions reached
  • FH funeral homes (industry 18): payment of preneed policies on temporary death certificates because vital-records offices were delayed
  • IN life insurers
  • CRT vital records
Character
context
Collection
State insurance and banking regulators AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING

Operative words

On March 9, 2020, Governor JB Pritzker proclaimed a statewide disaster due to the Coronavirus Disease [and on] March 20, 2020, the Governor issued Executive Order 2020-10 ordering Illinois [residents to stay at home; on] April 1, 2020, the Governor issued Executive Order 2020-18 continuing and extending Executive Order [2020-10... Insurers are directed to accept temporary death certificates as due proof of death under preneed funeral policies].

Enforcement

215 ILCS 5/403A; 5/424

Notes

The regulator's record that death-certificate issuance was delayed by the emergency, reaching every funeral home's collection function.

Retrieval note

Bracketed text paraphrases the directive; Cite it as context and cite the underlying order, statute or emergency rule it describes as the instrument. (Bulletins whose operative text imposes a mandatory duty on licensees under the regulator's own authority are excluded from this downgrade and listed separately for review.)).