Section 58-17A-4 - Reasonable benefits required--Regulations to establish minimum standard from lossratios--Policies issued through mail or mass media advertising. - South Dakota Statutes

58-17A-4. Reasonable benefits required--Regulations to establish minimum standard from loss ratios--Policies issued through mail or mass media advertising. Medicare supplement policies shall return to policyholders benefits which are reasonable in relation to the premium charged. The director shall issue regulations to establish minimum standards for loss ratios of medicare supplement policies on the basis of incurred claims experience or incurred health care expenses where coverage is provided by a health maintenance organization on a service rather than reimbursement basis and earned premiums and in accordance with accepted actuarial principles and practices. For purposes of regulations issued pursuant to this section, medicare supplement policies issued as a result of solicitations of individuals through the mail or mass media advertising, including both print and broadcast advertising, shall be treated as individual policies.

Source: SL 1982, ch 360, § 4; SL 1989, ch 431, § 3; SL 1992, ch 347, § 4.