449.650 - Death does not constitute suicide or homicide; effect of declaration on policy of insurance; prohibiting or requiring execution of declaration prohibited as condition for insurance or receip - Nevada Statutes

449.650  Death does not constitute suicide or homicide; effect of declaration on policy of insurance; prohibiting or requiring execution of declaration prohibited as condition for insurance or receipt of health care.

      1.  Death resulting from the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in accordance with NRS 449.535 to 449.690, inclusive, does not constitute, for any purpose, a suicide or homicide.

      2.  The making of a declaration pursuant to NRS 449.600 does not affect the sale, procurement or issuance of a policy of life insurance or annuity, nor does it affect, impair or modify the terms of an existing policy of life insurance or annuity. A policy of life insurance or annuity is not legally impaired or invalidated by the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from an insured, notwithstanding any term to the contrary.

      3.  A person may not prohibit or require the execution of a declaration as a condition for being insured for, or receiving, health care.

      (Added to NRS by 1977, 761; A 1991, 636)