687B.270 - Exemption of proceeds: Health insurance. - Nevada Statutes

687B.270  Exemption of proceeds: Health insurance.

      1.  Except as otherwise expressly provided by the policy or contract, the proceeds and avails of all contracts of health insurance and of provisions providing benefits on account of the disability of the insured which are supplemental to life insurance or annuity contracts effected before, on or after January 1, 1972, are exempt from all liability for any debt of the insured, and from any debt of the beneficiary existing at the time the proceeds are made available for the use of the beneficiary.

      2.  This section does not apply to insurance issued pursuant to this Code to a creditor covering his or her debtors to the extent that such proceeds are applied to payment of the obligation for the purpose of which the insurance was so issued.

      (Added to NRS by 1971, 1722; A 1997, 1626)