MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                             1733

AN ACT concerning
Insurance — Class of People Given Economic Loss Coverage

FOR the purpose of adding a certain class of individuals
to the list of persons covered by economic loss
coverage and clarifying the language.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments.

Article 48A — Insurance Code

Section 539 and 543(b), (c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 539 and 543(b), (c) of Article
48A — Insurance Code, of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1972 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) be and they
are hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

Article 48A — Insurance Code
53 9.

No policy of motor vehicle liability insurance shall
be issued, sold or delivered in this State after January
1, 1973, unless the policy also affords the minimum
medical, hospital and disability benefits set forth
herein; or unless equivalent medical, hospital, and
disability benefits are provided by a policy issued to
the insured by a nonprofit health service plan or by an
authorized insurer with the policy in each case subject
to approval by the Commissioner. The [said] benefits, or
their equivalent, shall cover the named insured and
members of his family residing in his household (except
such persons as may be specifically excluded in
accordance with § 240C—1 of this article) injured in any
motor vehicle accident (including an accident involving
an uninsured motor vehicle or a motor vehicle whose
identity cannot be ascertained), other persons injured
while occupying the insured motor vehicle as a guest or
passenger, or while using it with the express or implied
permission of the named insured (except as provided in §
240C—1 of this article), and pedestrians injured in an
accident in which the insured motor vehicle is [involved]
INVOLVED OR INDIVIDUALS INJURED IN, ON, OR ALIGHTING FROM
ANY OTHER VEHICLE OPERATED BY ANIMAL OR MUSCULAR POWER IN
AN ACCIDENT IN WHICH AN INSURED VEHICLE IS INVOLVED. The
minimum medical, hospital and disability benefits shall
include up to an amount of $2,500, for payment of all