§ 27-7-2.5 - Minimum coverage – Medical payments. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 27-7-2.5

   § 27-7-2.5  Minimum coverage – Medicalpayments. – (a) No policy insuring against loss resulting from liability imposed by law, orfor injuries caused by a motor vehicle collision or for injuries arising out ofthe ownership, maintenance, or use of a motor vehicle, shall be delivered orissued in this state unless coverage is provided in the policy for medicalpayments in an amount of not less than twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) foreach individual and five thousand dollars ($5,000) aggregate for the protectionof persons injured regardless of the fault of the injured person; provided,that the named insured shall have the right to reject that coverage in writing.

   (b) The insurer or any affiliated insurer shall be requiredto notify the policy holder in any renewal policy as to the availability ofmedical payments coverage. Unless the insured named in the policy requestsmedical payments coverage in writing, that coverage need not be provided in anysubsequent policy issued by the same insurer or any affiliate for motorvehicles owned by the named insured, including, but not limited to, renewal,reinstatement, substitute, amended, modified, transfer, or replacement policieswhere the named insured has rejected the coverage in connection with the policypreviously issued to the insured by the same insurer or an affiliate.