University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, September 27, 1978
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Insurance for the disabled guaranteed by state law
TOPEKA (AP)—A new law aimed at preventing discrimination against disabled persons in the issuance of insurance policies will be enforced by official inspection of insurance company records and by requiring companies to file additional information with the state, Insurance Commissioner Fletcher Bell said yesterday.
The law states insurance companies cannot deny life and accident and health policies to persons solely because of a severe disability.
The commissioner said a survey by his office indicated that many insurance companies refused to issue a life insurance policy to persons solely because they were blind. Some other companies would charge a higher premium solely because of blindness without any proof that the person is a greater risk, he added.
"ONLY A FEW states now have a law as beneficial to those with a severe disability" as does Kansas and I comment our 1978 Legislature for enacting this important legislation." Bell said in a prepared statement the law became effective in July.
Bell said he was requiring all insurance companies to file with his office any rate and coverage against the disability or submit for his approval any exclusions of coverage against the disabled and permit state inspection of insurance company records to determine compliance with the
THE LAW DEFINES "severe disability" as any disease of, or injury to, the spinal cord resulting in permanent and total disability; amputation of any extremity that would cause significant impairment; amputated extremity; blindness and deafness and certain development abilities.
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