The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
002
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LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITY CONTRACTS
(Cite as: 8 V.S.A. § 3735)
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§ 3735. Application as evidence
(a) No application for the issuance of any life or disability insurance policy or annuity
contract shall be admissible in evidence in any action relative to such policy or
contract, unless a true copy of the application was attached to or otherwise made
a part of the policy or contract when issued. This provision shall not apply to industrial
life insurance policies.
(b) If any policy of life or disability insurance delivered in this State is reinstated
or renewed, and the insured or the beneficiary or assignee of the policy makes written
request to the insurer for a copy of the application, if any, for such reinstatement
or renewal, the insurer shall, within 15 days after receipt of such request at its
home office, deliver or mail to the person making such request a copy of such application
reproduced by any legible means. If such copy is not so delivered or mailed after
having been so requested, the insurer shall be precluded from introducing the application
in evidence in any action or proceeding based upon or involving the policy or its
reinstatement or renewal. In the case of such a request from a beneficiary, the time
within which the insurer is required to furnish a copy of such application shall not
begin to run until after receipt of evidence satisfactory to the insurer of the beneficiary’s
vested interest in the policy or contract. (Added 1967, No. 344 (Adj. Sess.), § 1 (ch. 2, subch. 2, § 17).)