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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Illinois; Department of Insurance · Illinois
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- 215 ILCS 5/401
- Issued
- 2020-04-03 Apr. 3, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-03
- End
- For the duration of the disaster proclamations (read as 2020-09-30)
- In force
- Apr. 3, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Courts and public officesOther
- Addressees
- all insurers issuing policies covering preneed funeral contracts or prearrangements to Illinois residents for payment of burial, funeral, cremation or other disposition of remains
- Functions reached
- FH funeral homes (industry 18): payment of preneed policies on temporary death certificates because vital-records offices were delayed
- IN life insurers
- CRT vital records
- Character
- context
- Collection
- State insurance and banking regulators AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING
Operative words
On March 9, 2020, Governor JB Pritzker proclaimed a statewide disaster due to the Coronavirus Disease [and on] March 20, 2020, the Governor issued Executive Order 2020-10 ordering Illinois [residents to stay at home; on] April 1, 2020, the Governor issued Executive Order 2020-18 continuing and extending Executive Order [2020-10... Insurers are directed to accept temporary death certificates as due proof of death under preneed funeral policies].
Enforcement
Notes
The regulator's record that death-certificate issuance was delayed by the emergency, reaching every funeral home's collection function.
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