§ 2232.21. Notice of Claim.

COMPULSORY UNIFORM PROVISIONS

Written notice of claim must be given to the insurer within 20 days after the occurrence or commencement of any loss covered by the policy, or as soon thereafter as is reasonably possible. Notice given by or on behalf of the claimant to the insurer at ____ or to any authorized agent of the insurer, with information sufficient to identify the insured employee, shall be deemed notice to the insurer.

Instructions

1. In the blank space in this provision, the insurer shall insert the location of such office or offices as it may designate for the purpose of giving notice of claim.

2. The insurer may omit the second sentence of this provision if in the normal course of its business it makes all collections and services group disability accounts through its home office or branch offices and not through life and disability agents, and if it has conspicuously imprinted on the individual certificates (including supplemental certificates) the name of the insurer and the address of its home office and the address or addresses of the branch office or offices to which notice of claim and proof of loss may be sent. (Ins. C. 10350.5.)