Maryland Code, Insurance § 17-311

Each policy of group life insurance shall contain a provision that if an insured under the policy dies while entitled to an individual policy under § 17-309 or § 17-310 of this subtitle but before the individual policy becomes effective, the amount of life insurance to which the insured would have been entitled shall be payable as a claim under the group policy, whether or not application for the individual policy or payment of the first premium has been made.