Chap. 318.—An ACT to require industrial sick benefit companies to insert iz
policies of industrial sick benefit insurance hereafter issued by them a prov1-
sion permitting the cancellation of the sick benefit portion of the policy
under certain conditions. [S B 354]

Approved March 20, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in-
dustrial sick benefit companies authorized to transact business in this
State shall be required to insert in policies of industrial sick benefit
insurance hereafter issued by them in this State, without affecting
the character of such policies as policies of industrial sick benefit
insurance, a provision that the sick benefit portion of the policy may
be cancelled by either the company or the insured and the life portion
continued by a payment of twenty per cent. of the original premium ;
and that, if the cancellation be by the company, it shall be without
prejudice to any claim arising on account of disability commencing
prior to the date on which the cancellation takes effect, and written
notice of the cancellation shall be delivered to the insured or mailed
to him at his last address as shown by the records of the company
accompanied by a tender of the company’s check for the unearned
portion of the premium. .