Amended in Senate April 16, 2015

Senate BillNo. 701


Introduced by Senator Berryhill

February 27, 2015


An act to amend Section 10752.4 of the Insurance Code, relating to insurance.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 701, as amended, Berryhill. Stop-loss insurance coverage: attachment points.

Existing law prohibits a stop-loss insurance policy issued, reissued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2016, to a small employer from containing an aggregate attachment point for a policy year that is less than the greater of one of the following: $5,000 multiplied by the total number of group members, 120% of expected claims, or $40,000.

This bill would instead require that the $5,000 per group member attachment point be changed to $2,500 perbegin insert qualifiedend insert employee.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1.  

Section 10752.4 of the Insurance Code is
2amended to read:

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10752.4.  

A stop-loss insurance policy issued, reissued, or
4renewed on or after January 1, 2016, to a small employer shall not
5contain any of the following provisions:

6(a) An individual attachment point for a policy year that is less
7than forty thousand dollars ($40,000).

P2    1(b) An aggregate attachment point for a policy year that is less
2than the greater of one of the following:

3(1) Two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) perbegin insert qualifiedend insert
4 employee.

5(2) One hundred twenty percent of expected claims.

6(3) Forty thousand dollars ($40,000).

7(c) A provision for direct coverage of an employee or dependent
8of an employee.



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