If an insurer includes an arbitration provision in an individual health insurance contract, the arbitration provision may not require the insured to use arbitration to settle disputes with the insurer.

Authority: Insurance Article, §§2-109, 12-203(g), and 12-205(b)(4), Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date:

Regulations .01—.04 adopted as an emergency provision effective January 1, 2002 (28:26 Md. R. 2270); adopted permanently effective June 10, 2002 (29:11 Md. R. 891)

Regulation .02B amended effective October 18, 2010 (37:21 Md. R. 1438)

Regulation .03A amended as an emergency provision effective May 9, 2003 (30:11 Md. R. 733); amended permanently effective October 27, 2003 (30:21 Md. R. 1531)

Regulation .05 adopted effective October 18, 2010 (37:21 Md. R. 1438)

Regulation .05B amended effective April 22, 2019 (46:8 Md. R. 402)