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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>362101</law_id><section_number>38.2-3326</section_number><catch_line>Incontestability</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-5209</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="88" identifier="38.2">Insurance</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="33" identifier="33">Life Insurance Policies</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="2" identifier="2">Group Life Insurance Policies</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Each group life <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> policy shall contain a provision that the validity of the policy shall not be contested, except for nonpayment of premiums, after it has been in force for two years from its date of <span class="dictionary">issue</span>. <a id="paragraph-1348105" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3326/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The provision shall also <span class="dictionary">state</span> that no statement made by any <span class="dictionary">person</span> insured under the policy relating to his insurability or the insurability of his insured dependents shall be used in contesting the validity of the <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> with respect to which such statement was made: <a id="paragraph-1348106" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3326/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> After the <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> has been in force prior to the contest for a period of two years during the lifetime of the <span class="dictionary">person</span> about whom the statement was made; and <a id="paragraph-1348107" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3326/#B1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Unless the statement is contained in a written instrument signed by him. <a id="paragraph-1348108" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3326/#B2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 38-429(1); 1952, c. 317, &#xA7; 38.1-425; 1986, c. 562.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
