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Department of Banking and Insurance Bulletin No. 20-27

60-day grace period for health insurance policies and contracts not addressed by Bulletins 20-11 to 20-14, due to the disruption caused by COVID-19

Marlene Caride, Commissioner of Banking and Insurance · New Jersey (Sector regulator)

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The record

Jurisdiction
New Jersey
Level
Sector regulator
Authority
EO 123 (2020); Titles 17 and 17B
Issued
2020-05-28 May 28, 2020
Effective
2020-05-28 (grace period electable retroactively to April 1 or May 1, 2020) (read as 2020-05-28)
End
Grace periods ran their terms; EO 123 to January 1, 2022 (read as 2022-01-01)
In force
May 28, 2020 to Jan. 1, 2022
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q3
Limitation types
Other
Addressees
  • all companies authorized to sell accident and health insurance in New Jersey
Functions reached
  • IN insurance premium collection and cancellation
  • CB employer group policyholders
Collection
New Jersey NJ

Operative words

"Carriers are directed to extend an emergency grace period for the payment of premiums to their policyholders or contract holders for all individual and group accident and health insurance policies or contracts issued and delivered in New Jersey"... "the Department is directing carriers to provide policyholders and contract holders who may be experiencing a financial hardship due to COVID-19 with a 60-day emergency grace period to pay premiums so that insurance policies or contracts are not cancelled for nonpayment of premium due. A policyholder or contract holder may elect to begin the emergency grace period retroactively on April 1, 2020 or May 1, 2020."

Enforcement

DOBI regulatory authority; EO 123

Notes

Cites EO 103 at 52 N.J.R. 549(a), EO 107 at 52 N.J.R. 554(a) and EO 123 at 52 N.J.R. 962(a): the New Jersey Register citations for the principal orders.

Retrieval note

Read from nj.gov/dobi (dated May 28, 2020).