Utah Code § 31A-26-201

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(92) "Independently procured insurance" means insurance procured under Section 31A-15-104.
(93) "Individual" means a natural person.
(94) "Inland marine insurance" includes insurance covering:
(a) property in transit on or over land;
(b) property in transit over water by means other than boat or ship;
(c) bailee liability;
(d) fixed transportation property such as bridges, electric transmission systems, radio and
television transmission towers and tunnels; and
(e) personal and commercial property floaters.
(95) "Insolvency" or "insolvent" means that:
(a) an insurer is unable to pay the insurer's obligations as the obligations are due;
(b) an insurer's total adjusted capital is less than the insurer's mandatory control level RBC under
Subsection 31A-17-601(8)(c); or
(c) an insurer's admitted assets are less than the insurer's liabilities.
(96)
(a) "Insurance" means:
(i) an arrangement, contract, or plan for the transfer of a risk or risks from one or more persons
to one or more other persons; or
(ii) an arrangement, contract, or plan for the distribution of a risk or risks among a group of
persons that includes the person seeking to distribute that person's risk.
(b) "Insurance" includes:
(i) a risk distributing arrangement providing for compensation or replacement for damages or
loss through the provision of a service or a benefit in kind;
(ii) a contract of guaranty or suretyship entered into by the guarantor or surety as a business
and not as merely incidental to a business transaction; and
(iii) a plan in which the risk does not rest upon the person who makes an arrangement, but with
a class of persons who have agreed to share the risk.
(97) "Insurance adjuster" means a person who directs or conducts the investigation, negotiation,
or settlement of a claim under an insurance policy other than life insurance or an annuity, on
behalf of an insurer, policyholder, or a claimant under an insurance policy.
(98) "Insurance business" or "business of insurance" includes:
(a) providing health care insurance by an organization that is or is required to be licensed under
this title;

(b) providing a benefit to an employee in the event of a contingency not within the control of the
employee, in which the employee is entitled to the benefit as a right, which benefit may be
provided either:
(i) by a single employer or by multiple employer groups; or
(ii) through one or more trusts, associations, or other entities;
(c) providing an annuity:
(i) including an annuity issued in return for a gift; and
(ii) except an annuity provided by a person specified in Subsections 31A-22-1305(2) and (3);
(d) providing the characteristic services of a motor club;
(e) providing another person with insurance;
(f) making as insurer, guarantor, or surety, or proposing to make as insurer, guarantor, or surety,
a contract or policy offering title insurance;
(g) transacting or proposing to transact any phase of title insurance, including:
(i) solicitation;
(ii) negotiation preliminary to execution;
(iii) execution of a contract of title insurance;
(iv) insuring; and
(v) transacting matters subsequent to the execution of the contract and arising out of the
contract, including reinsurance;
(h) transacting or proposing a life settlement; and
(i) doing, or proposing to do, any business in substance equivalent to Subsections (98)(a)
through (h) in a manner designed to evade this title.
(99) "Insurance consultant" or "consultant" means a person who:
(a) advises another person about insurance needs and coverages;
(b) is compensated by the person advised on a basis not directly related to the insurance placed;
and
(c) except as provided in Section 31A-23a-501, is not compensated directly or indirectly by an
insurer or producer for advice given.
(100) "Insurance group" means the persons that comprise an insurance holding company system.
(101) "Insurance holding company system" means a group of two or more affiliated persons, at
least one of whom is an insurer.
(102)
(a) "Insurance producer" or "producer" means a person licensed or required to be licensed under
the laws of this state to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance.
(b)
(i) "Producer for the insurer" means a producer who is compensated directly or indirectly by an
insurer for selling, soliciting, or negotiating an insurance product of that insurer.
(ii) "Producer for the insurer" may be referred to as an "agent."
(c)
(i) "Producer for the insured" means a producer who:
(A) is compensated directly and only by an insurance customer or an insured; and
(B) receives no compensation directly or indirectly from an insurer for selling, soliciting, or
negotiating an insurance product of that insurer to an insurance customer or insured.
(ii) "Producer for the insured" may be referred to as a "broker."
(103)
(a) "Insured" means a person to whom or for whose benefit an insurer makes a promise in an
insurance policy and includes:
(i) a policyholder;

(ii) a subscriber;
(iii) a member; and
(iv) a beneficiary.
(b) The definition in Subsection (103)(a):
(i) applies only to this title;
(ii) does not define the meaning of "insured" as used in an insurance policy or certificate; and
(iii) includes an enrollee.
(104)
(a) "Insurer," "carrier," "insurance carrier," or "insurance company" means a person doing an
insurance business as a principal including:
(i) a fraternal benefit society;
(ii) an issuer of a gift annuity other than an annuity specified in Subsections 31A-22-1305(2)
and (3);
(iii) a motor club;
(iv) an employee welfare plan;
(v) a person purporting or intending to do an insurance business as a principal on that person's
own account; and
(vi) a health maintenance organization.
(b) "Insurer," "carrier," "insurance carrier," or "insurance company" does not include a
governmental entity.
(105) "Interinsurance exchange" means the same as that term is defined in Subsection (168).
(106) "Internationally active insurance group" means an insurance holding company system:
(a) that includes an insurer registered under Section 31A-16-105;
(b) that has premiums written in at least three countries;
(c) whose percentage of gross premiums written outside the United States is at least 10% of its
total gross written premiums; and
(d) that, based on a three-year rolling average, has:
(i) total assets of at least $50,000,000,000; or
(ii) total gross written premiums of at least $10,000,000,000.
(107) "Involuntary unemployment insurance" means insurance:
(a) offered in connection with an extension of credit; and
(b) that provides indemnity if the debtor is involuntarily unemployed for payments coming due on
a:
(i) specific loan; or
(ii) credit transaction.
(108) "Large employer," in connection with a health benefit plan, means an employer who, with
respect to a calendar year and to a plan year:
(a) employed an average of at least 51 employees on business days during the preceding
calendar year; and
(b) employs at least one employee on the first day of the plan year.
(109) "Late enrollee," with respect to an employer health benefit plan, means an individual whose
enrollment is a late enrollment.
(110) "Late enrollment," with respect to an employer health benefit plan, means enrollment of an
individual other than:
(a) on the earliest date on which coverage can become effective for the individual under the
terms of the plan; or
(b) through special enrollment.
(111)

(a) Except for a retainer contract or legal assistance described in Section 31A-1-103, "legal
expense insurance" means insurance written to indemnify or pay for a specified legal
expense.
(b) "Legal expense insurance" includes an arrangement that creates a reasonable expectation of
an enforceable right.
(c) "Legal expense insurance" does not include the provision of, or reimbursement for, legal
services incidental to other insurance coverage.
(112)
(a) "Liability insurance" means insurance against liability:
(i) for death, injury, or disability of a human being, or for damage to property, exclusive of the
coverages under:
(A) medical malpractice insurance;
(B) professional liability insurance; and
(C) workers' compensation insurance;
(ii) for a medical, hospital, surgical, and funeral benefit to a person other than the insured who
is injured, irrespective of legal liability of the insured, when issued with or supplemental to
insurance against legal liability for the death, injury, or disability of a human being, exclusive
of the coverages under:
(A) medical malpractice insurance;
(B) professional liability insurance; and
(C) workers' compensation insurance;
(iii) for loss or damage to property resulting from an accident to or explosion of a boiler, pipe,
pressure container, machinery, or apparatus;
(iv) for loss or damage to property caused by:
(A) the breakage or leakage of a sprinkler, water pipe, or water container; or
(B) water entering through a leak or opening in a building; or
(v) for other loss or damage properly the subject of insurance not within another kind of
insurance as defined in this chapter, if the insurance is not contrary to law or public policy.
(b) "Liability insurance" includes:
(i) vehicle liability insurance;
(ii) residential dwelling liability insurance; and
(iii) making inspection of, and issuing a certificate of inspection upon, an elevator, boiler,
machinery, or apparatus of any kind when done in connection with insurance on the
elevator, boiler, machinery, or apparatus.
(113)
(a) "License" means authorization issued by the commissioner to engage in an activity that is part
of or related to the insurance business.
(b) "License" includes a certificate of authority issued to an insurer.
(114)
(a) "Life insurance" means:
(i) insurance on a human life; and
(ii) insurance pertaining to or connected with human life.
(b) The business of life insurance includes:
(i) granting a death benefit;
(ii) granting an annuity benefit;
(iii) granting an endowment benefit;
(iv) granting an additional benefit in the event of death by accident;
(v) granting an additional benefit to safeguard the policy against lapse; and

(vi) providing an optional method of settlement of proceeds.
(115) "Limited license" means a license that:
(a) is issued for a specific product of insurance; and
(b) limits an individual or agency to transact only for that product or insurance.
(116) "Limited line credit insurance" includes the following forms of insurance:
(a) credit life;
(b) credit accident and health;
(c) credit property;
(d) credit unemployment;
(e) involuntary unemployment;
(f) mortgage life;
(g) mortgage guaranty;
(h) mortgage accident and health;
(i) guaranteed automobile protection; and
(j) another form of insurance offered in connection with an extension of credit that:
(i) is limited to partially or wholly extinguishing the credit obligation; and
(ii) the commissioner determines by rule should be designated as a form of limited line credit
insurance.
(117) "Limited line credit insurance producer" means a person who sells, solicits, or negotiates
one or more forms of limited line credit insurance coverage to an individual through a master,
corporate, group, or individual policy.
(118) "Limited line insurance" includes:
(a) bail bond;
(b) limited line credit insurance;
(c) legal expense insurance;
(d) motor club insurance;
(e) car rental related insurance;
(f) travel insurance;
(g) crop insurance;
(h) self-service storage insurance;
(i) guaranteed asset protection waiver;
(j) portable electronics insurance; and
(k) another form of limited insurance that the commissioner determines by rule should be
designated a form of limited line insurance.
(119) "Limited lines authority" includes the lines of insurance listed in Subsection (118).
(120) "Limited lines producer" means a person who sells, solicits, or negotiates limited lines
insurance.
(121)
(a) "Long-term care insurance" means an insurance policy or rider advertised, marketed, offered,
or designated to provide coverage:
(i) in a setting other than an acute care unit of a hospital;
(ii) for not less than 12 consecutive months for a covered person on the basis of:
(A) expenses incurred;
(B) indemnity;
(C) prepayment; or
(D) another method;
(iii) for one or more necessary or medically necessary services that are:
(A) diagnostic;

(B) preventative;
(C) therapeutic;
(D) rehabilitative;
(E) maintenance; or
(F) personal care; and
(iv) that may be issued by:
(A) an insurer;
(B) a fraternal benefit society;
(C)
(I) a nonprofit health hospital; and
(II) a medical service corporation;
(D) a prepaid health plan;
(E) a health maintenance organization; or
(F) an entity similar to the entities described in Subsections (121)(a)(iv)(A) through (E) to the
extent that the entity is otherwise authorized to issue life or health care insurance.
(b) "Long-term care insurance" includes:
(i) any of the following that provide directly or supplement long-term care insurance:
(A) a group or individual annuity or rider; or
(B) a life insurance policy or rider;
(ii) a policy or rider that provides for payment of benefits on the basis of:
(A) cognitive impairment; or
(B) functional capacity; or
(iii) a qualified long-term care insurance contract.
(c) "Long-term care insurance" does not include:
(i) a policy that is offered primarily to provide basic Medicare supplement insurance;
(ii) basic hospital expense coverage;
(iii) basic medical/surgical expense coverage;
(iv) hospital confinement indemnity coverage;
(v) major medical expense coverage;
(vi) income replacement or related asset-protection coverage;
(vii) accident only coverage;
(viii) coverage for a specified:
(A) disease; or
(B) accident;
(ix) limited benefit health coverage;
(x) a life insurance policy that accelerates the death benefit to provide the option of a lump sum
payment:
(A) if the following are not conditioned on the receipt of long-term care:
(I) benefits; or
(II) eligibility; and
(B) the coverage is for one or more the following qualifying events:
(I) terminal illness;
(II) medical conditions requiring extraordinary medical intervention; or
(III) permanent institutional confinement; or
(xi) limited long-term care as defined in Section 31A-22-2002.
(122) "Managed care organization" means a person:
(a) licensed as a health maintenance organization under Chapter 8, Health Maintenance
Organizations and Limited Health Plans; or

(b)
(i) licensed under:
(A) Chapter 5, Domestic Stock and Mutual Insurance Corporations;
(B) Chapter 7, Nonprofit Health Service Insurance Corporations; or
(C) Chapter 14, Foreign Insurers; and
(ii) that requires an enrollee to use, or offers incentives, including financial incentives, for an
enrollee to use, network providers.
(123) "Medical malpractice insurance" means insurance against legal liability incident to the
practice and provision of a medical service other than the practice and provision of a dental
service.
(124) "Medicare" means the "Health Insurance for the Aged Act," Title XVIII of the federal Social
Security Act, as then constituted or later amended.
(125)
(a) "Medicare supplement insurance" means health insurance coverage that is advertised,
marketed, or designed primarily as a supplement to reimbursements under Medicare for the
hospital, medical, or surgical expenses of individuals eligible for Medicare.
(b) "Medicare supplement insurance" does not include:
(i) a policy issued pursuant to a contract under Section 1876 of the federal Social Security Act;
(ii) a policy issued under a demonstration project specified in 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1395ss(g)(1);
(iii) a Medicare Advantage plan established under Medicare Part C;
(iv) an outpatient prescription drug plan established under Medicare Part D; or
(v) any health care prepayment plan that provides benefits pursuant to an agreement under
Section 1833(a)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act.
(126) "Member" means a person having membership rights in an insurance corporation.
(127) "Minimum capital" or "minimum required capital" means the capital that must be constantly
maintained by a stock insurance corporation as required by statute.
(128) "Mortgage accident and health insurance" means insurance offered in connection with an
extension of credit that provides indemnity for payments coming due on a mortgage while the
debtor has a disability.
(129) "Mortgage guaranty insurance" means surety insurance under which a mortgagee or other
creditor is indemnified against losses caused by the default of a debtor.
(130) "Mortgage life insurance" means insurance on the life of a debtor in connection with an
extension of credit that pays if the debtor dies.
(131) "Motor club" means a person:
(a) licensed under:
(i) Chapter 5, Domestic Stock and Mutual Insurance Corporations;
(ii) Chapter 11, Motor Clubs; or
(iii) Chapter 14, Foreign Insurers; and
(b) that promises for an advance consideration to provide for a stated period of time one or more:
(i) legal services under Subsection 31A-11-102(1)(b);
(ii) bail services under Subsection 31A-11-102(1)(c); or
(iii)
(A) trip reimbursement;
(B) towing services;
(C) emergency road services;
(D) stolen automobile services;
(E) a combination of the services listed in Subsections (131)(b)(iii)(A) through (D); or
(F) other services given in Subsections 31A-11-102(1)(b) through (f).

(132) "Mutual" means a mutual insurance corporation.
(133) "NAIC" means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
(134) "NAIC liquidity stress test framework" means a NAIC publication that includes:
(a) a history of the NAIC's development of regulatory liquidity stress testing;
(b) the scope criteria applicable for a specific data year; and
(c) the liquidity stress test instructions and reporting templates for a specific data year, as
adopted by the NAIC and as amended by the NAIC in accordance with NAIC procedures.
(135) "Network plan" means health care insurance:
(a) that is issued by an insurer; and
(b) under which the financing and delivery of medical care is provided, in whole or in part,
through a defined set of providers under contract with the insurer, including the financing and
delivery of an item paid for as medical care.
(136) "Network provider" means a health care provider who has an agreement with a managed
care organization to provide health care services to an enrollee with an expectation of receiving
payment, other than coinsurance, copayments, or deductibles, directly from the managed care
organization.
(137) "Nonparticipating" means a plan of insurance under which the insured is not entitled to
receive a dividend representing a share of the surplus of the insurer.
(138) "Ocean marine insurance" means insurance against loss of or damage to:
(a) ships or hulls of ships;
(b) goods, freight, cargoes, merchandise, effects, disbursements, profits, money, securities,
choses in action, evidences of debt, valuable papers, bottomry, respondentia interests, or
other cargoes in or awaiting transit over the oceans or inland waterways;
(c) earnings such as freight, passage money, commissions, or profits derived from transporting
goods or people upon or across the oceans or inland waterways; or
(d) a vessel owner or operator as a result of liability to employees, passengers, bailors, owners
of other vessels, owners of fixed objects, customs or other authorities, or other persons in
connection with maritime activity.
(139) "Order" means an order of the commissioner.
(140) "ORSA guidance manual" means the current version of the Own Risk and Solvency
Assessment Guidance Manual developed and adopted by the National Association of
Insurance Commissioners and as amended from time to time.
(141) "ORSA summary report" means a confidential high-level summary of an insurer or insurance
group's own risk and solvency assessment.
(142) "Outline of coverage" means a summary that explains an accident and health insurance
policy.
(143) "Own risk and solvency assessment" means an insurer or insurance group's confidential
internal assessment:
(a)
(i) of each material and relevant risk associated with the insurer or insurance group;
(ii) of the insurer or insurance group's current business plan to support each risk described in
Subsection (143)(a)(i); and
(iii) of the sufficiency of capital resources to support each risk described in Subsection (143)(a)
(i); and
(b) that is appropriate to the nature, scale, and complexity of an insurer or insurance group.
(144) "Participating" means a plan of insurance under which the insured is entitled to receive a
dividend representing a share of the surplus of the insurer.

(145) "Participation," as used in a health benefit plan, means a requirement relating to the
minimum percentage of eligible employees that must be enrolled in relation to the total number
of eligible employees of an employer reduced by each eligible employee who voluntarily
declines coverage under the plan because the employee:
(a) has other group health care insurance coverage; or
(b) receives:
(i) Medicare, under the Health Insurance for the Aged Act, Title XVIII of the Social Security
Amendments of 1965; or
(ii) another government health benefit.
(146) "Person" includes:
(a) an individual;
(b) a partnership;
(c) a corporation;
(d) an incorporated or unincorporated association;
(e) a joint stock company;
(f) a trust;
(g) a limited liability company;
(h) a reciprocal;
(i) a syndicate; or
(j) another similar entity or combination of entities acting in concert.
(147) "Personal lines insurance" means property and casualty insurance coverage sold for
primarily noncommercial purposes to:
(a) an individual; or
(b) a family.
(148) "Plan sponsor" means the same as that term is defined in 29 U.S.C. Sec. 1002(16)(B).
(149) "Plan year" means:
(a) the year that is designated as the plan year in:
(i) the plan document of a group health plan; or
(ii) a summary plan description of a group health plan;
(b) if the plan document or summary plan description does not designate a plan year or there is
no plan document or summary plan description:
(i) the year used to determine deductibles or limits;
(ii) the policy year, if the plan does not impose deductibles or limits on a yearly basis; or
(iii) the employer's taxable year if:
(A) the plan does not impose deductibles or limits on a yearly basis; and
(B)
(I) the plan is not insured; or
(II) the insurance policy is not renewed on an annual basis; or
(c) in a case not described in Subsection (149)(a) or (b), the calendar year.
(150)
(a) "Policy" means a document, including an attached endorsement or application that:
(i) purports to be an enforceable contract; and
(ii) memorializes in writing some or all of the terms of an insurance contract.
(b) "Policy" includes a service contract issued by:
(i) a motor club under Chapter 11, Motor Clubs;
(ii) a service contract provided under Chapter 6a, Service Contracts; and
(iii) a corporation licensed under:
(A) Chapter 7, Nonprofit Health Service Insurance Corporations; or

(B) Chapter 8, Health Maintenance Organizations and Limited Health Plans.
(c) "Policy" does not include:
(i) a certificate under a group insurance contract; or
(ii) a document that does not purport to have legal effect.
(151) "Policyholder" means a person who controls a policy, binder, or oral contract by ownership,
premium payment, or otherwise.
(152) "Policy illustration" means a presentation or depiction that includes nonguaranteed elements
of a policy offering life insurance over a period of years.
(153) "Policy summary" means a synopsis describing the elements of a life insurance policy.
(154) "PPACA" means the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub. L. No. 111-148 and
the Health Care Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, Pub. L. No. 111-152, and related federal
regulations and guidance.
(155) "Preexisting condition," with respect to health care insurance:
(a) means a condition that was present before the effective date of coverage, whether or not
medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was recommended or received before that day;
and
(b) does not include a condition indicated by genetic information unless an actual diagnosis of the
condition by a physician has been made.
(156)
(a) "Premium" means the monetary consideration for an insurance policy.
(b) "Premium" includes, however designated:
(i) an assessment;
(ii) a membership fee;
(iii) a required contribution; or
(iv) monetary consideration.
(c)
(i) "Premium" does not include consideration paid to a third party administrator for the third
party administrator's services.
(ii) "Premium" includes an amount paid by a third party administrator to an insurer for insurance
on the risks administered by the third party administrator.
(157) "Principal officers" for a corporation means the officers designated under Subsection
31A-5-203(3).
(158) "Proceeding" includes an action or special statutory proceeding.
(159) "Professional liability insurance" means insurance against legal liability incident to the
practice of a profession and provision of a professional service.
(160)
(a) "Property insurance" means insurance against loss or damage to real or personal property of
every kind and any interest in that property:
(i) from all hazards or causes; and
(ii) against loss consequential upon the loss or damage including vehicle comprehensive and
vehicle physical damage coverages.
(b) "Property insurance" does not include:
(i) inland marine insurance; and
(ii) ocean marine insurance.
(161) "Qualified long-term care insurance contract" or "federally tax qualified long-term care
insurance contract" means:
(a) an individual or group insurance contract that meets the requirements of Section 7702B(b),
Internal Revenue Code; or

(b) the portion of a life insurance contract that provides long-term care insurance:
(i)
(A) by rider; or
(B) as a part of the contract; and
(ii) that satisfies the requirements of Sections 7702B(b) and (e), Internal Revenue Code.
(162) "Qualified United States financial institution" means an institution that:
(a) is:
(i) organized under the laws of the United States or any state; or
(ii) in the case of a United States office of a foreign banking organization, licensed under the
laws of the United States or any state;
(b) is regulated, supervised, and examined by a United States federal or state authority having
regulatory authority over a bank or trust company; and
(c) meets the standards of financial condition and standing that are considered necessary and
appropriate to regulate the quality of a financial institution whose letters of credit will be
acceptable to the commissioner as determined by:
(i) the commissioner by rule; or
(ii) the Securities Valuation Office of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
(163)
(a) "Rate" means:
(i) the cost of a given unit of insurance; or
(ii) for property or casualty insurance, that cost of insurance per exposure unit either expressed
as:
(A) a single number; or
(B) a pure premium rate, adjusted before the application of individual risk variations based on
loss or expense considerations to account for the treatment of:
(I) expenses;
(II) profit; and
(III) individual insurer variation in loss experience.
(b) "Rate" does not include a minimum premium.
(164)
(a) "Rate service organization" means a person who assists an insurer in rate making or filing by:
(i) collecting, compiling, and furnishing loss or expense statistics;
(ii) recommending, making, or filing rates or supplementary rate information; or
(iii) advising about rate questions, except as an attorney giving legal advice.
(b) "Rate service organization" does not include:
(i) an employee of an insurer;
(ii) a single insurer or group of insurers under common control;
(iii) a joint underwriting group; or
(iv) an individual serving as an actuarial or legal consultant.
(165) "Rating manual" means any of the following used to determine initial and renewal policy
premiums:
(a) a manual of rates;
(b) a classification;
(c) a rate-related underwriting rule; and
(d) a rating formula that describes steps, policies, and procedures for determining initial and
renewal policy premiums.
(166)

(a) "Rebate" means a licensee paying, allowing, giving, or offering to pay, allow, or give, directly
or indirectly:
(i) a refund of premium or portion of premium;
(ii) a refund of commission or portion of commission;
(iii) a refund of all or a portion of a consultant fee; or
(iv) providing services or other benefits not specified in an insurance or annuity contract.
(b) "Rebate" does not include:
(i) a refund due to termination or changes in coverage;
(ii) a refund due to overcharges made in error by the licensee; or
(iii) savings or wellness benefits as provided in the contract by the licensee.
(167) "Received by the department" means:
(a) the date delivered to and stamped received by the department, if delivered in person;
(b) the post mark date, if delivered by mail;
(c) the delivery service's post mark or pickup date, if delivered by a delivery service;
(d) the received date recorded on an item delivered, if delivered by:
(i) facsimile;
(ii) email; or
(iii) another electronic method; or
(e) a date specified in:
(i) a statute;
(ii) a rule; or
(iii) an order.
(168) "Reciprocal" or "interinsurance exchange" means an unincorporated association of persons:
(a) operating through an attorney-in-fact common to all of the persons; and
(b) exchanging insurance contracts with one another that provide insurance coverage on each
other.
(169) "Reinsurance" means an insurance transaction where an insurer, for consideration,
transfers any portion of the risk it has assumed to another insurer. In referring to reinsurance
transactions, this title sometimes refers to:
(a) the insurer transferring the risk as the "ceding insurer"; and
(b) the insurer assuming the risk as the:
(i) "assuming insurer"; or
(ii) "assuming reinsurer."
(170) "Reinsurer" means a person licensed in this state as an insurer with the authority to assume
reinsurance.
(171) "Residential dwelling liability insurance" means insurance against liability resulting from
or incident to the ownership, maintenance, or use of a residential dwelling that is a detached
single family residence or multifamily residence up to four units.
(172)
(a) "Retrocession" means reinsurance with another insurer of a liability assumed under a
reinsurance contract.
(b) A reinsurer "retrocedes" when the reinsurer reinsures with another insurer part of a liability
assumed under a reinsurance contract.
(173) "Rider" means an endorsement to:
(a) an insurance policy; or
(b) an insurance certificate.

(174) "Scope criteria" means the designated exposure bases and minimum magnitudes for a
specified data year that are used to establish a preliminary list of insurers considered scoped
into the NAIC liquidity stress test framework for that data year.
(175) "Secondary medical condition" means a complication related to an exclusion from coverage
in accident and health insurance.
(176)
(a) "Security" means a:
(i) note;
(ii) stock;
(iii) bond;
(iv) debenture;
(v) evidence of indebtedness;
(vi) certificate of interest or participation in a profit-sharing agreement;
(vii) collateral-trust certificate;
(viii) preorganization certificate or subscription;
(ix) transferable share;
(x) investment contract;
(xi) voting trust certificate;
(xii) certificate of deposit for a security;
(xiii) certificate of interest of participation in an oil, gas, or mining title or lease or in payments
out of production under such a title or lease;
(xiv) commodity contract or commodity option;
(xv) certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim certificate for, receipt for,
guarantee of, or warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase any of the items listed in
Subsections (176)(a)(i) through (xiv); or
(xvi) another interest or instrument commonly known as a security.
(b) "Security" does not include:
(i) any of the following under which an insurance company promises to pay money in a specific
lump sum or periodically for life or some other specified period:
(A) insurance;
(B) an endowment policy; or
(C) an annuity contract; or
(ii) a burial certificate or burial contract.
(177) "Securityholder" means a specified person who owns a security of a person, including:
(a) common stock;
(b) preferred stock;
(c) debt obligations; and
(d) any other security convertible into or evidencing the right of any of the items listed in this
Subsection (177).
(178)
(a) "Self-insurance" means an arrangement under which a person provides for spreading the
person's own risks by a systematic plan.
(b) "Self-insurance" includes:
(i) an arrangement under which a governmental entity undertakes to indemnify an employee for
liability arising out of the employee's employment; and
(ii) an arrangement under which a person with a managed program of self-insurance and risk
management undertakes to indemnify the person's affiliate, subsidiary, director, officer,

or employee for liability or risk that arises out of the person's relationship with the affiliate,
subsidiary, director, officer, or employee.
(c) "Self-insurance" does not include:
(i) an arrangement under which a number of persons spread their risks among themselves; or
(ii) an arrangement with an independent contractor.
(179) "Sell" means to exchange a contract of insurance:
(a) by any means;
(b) for money or its equivalent; and
(c) on behalf of an insurance company.
(180) "Short-term limited duration health insurance" means a health benefit product that:
(a) after taking into account any renewals or extensions, has a total duration of no more than 36
months; and
(b) has an expiration date specified in the contract that is less than 12 months after the original
effective date of coverage under the health benefit product.
(181) "Significant break in coverage" means a period of 63 consecutive days during each of which
an individual does not have creditable coverage.
(182)
(a) "Small employer" means, in connection with a health benefit plan and with respect to a
calendar year and to a plan year, an employer who:
(i)
(A) employed at least one but not more than 50 eligible employees on business days during
the preceding calendar year; or
(B) if the employer did not exist for the entirety of the preceding calendar year, reasonably
expects to employ an average of at least one but not more than 50 eligible employees on
business days during the current calendar year;
(ii) employs at least one employee on the first day of the plan year; and
(iii) for an employer who has common ownership with one or more other employers, is treated
as a single employer under 26 U.S.C. Sec. 414(b), (c), (m), or (o).
(b) "Small employer" does not include an owner or a sole proprietor that does not employ at least
one employee.
(183) "Special enrollment period," in connection with a health benefit plan, has the same meaning
as provided in federal regulations adopted pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act.
(184)
(a) "Subsidiary" of a person means an affiliate controlled by that person either directly or
indirectly through one or more affiliates or intermediaries.
(b) "Wholly owned subsidiary" of a person is a subsidiary of which all of the voting shares are
owned by that person either alone or with its affiliates, except for the minimum number of
shares the law of the subsidiary's domicile requires to be owned by directors or others.
(185) Subject to Subsection (95)(b), "surety insurance" includes:
(a) a guarantee against loss or damage resulting from the failure of a principal to pay or perform
the principal's obligations to a creditor or other obligee;
(b) bail bond insurance; and
(c) fidelity insurance.
(186)
(a) "Surplus" means the excess of assets over the sum of paid-in capital and liabilities.
(b)

(i) "Permanent surplus" means the surplus of an insurer or organization that is designated by
the insurer or organization as permanent.
(ii) Sections 31A-5-211, 31A-7-201, 31A-8-209, 31A-9-209, and 31A-14-205 require that
insurers or organizations doing business in this state maintain specified minimum levels of
permanent surplus.
(iii) Except for assessable mutuals, the minimum permanent surplus requirement is the same
as the minimum required capital requirement that applies to stock insurers.
(c) "Excess surplus" means:
(i) for a life insurer, accident and health insurer, health organization, or property and casualty
insurer as defined in Section 31A-17-601, the lesser of:
(A) that amount of an insurer's or health organization's total adjusted capital that exceeds the
product of:
(I) 2.5; and
(II) the sum of the insurer's or health organization's minimum capital or permanent surplus
required under Section 31A-5-211, 31A-9-209, or 31A-14-205; or
(B) that amount of an insurer's or health organization's total adjusted capital that exceeds the
product of:
(I) 3.0; and
(II) the authorized control level RBC as defined in Subsection 31A-17-601(8)(a); and
(ii) for a monoline mortgage guaranty insurer, financial guaranty insurer, or title insurer that
amount of an insurer's paid-in-capital and surplus that exceeds the product of:
(A) 1.5; and
(B) the insurer's total adjusted capital required by Subsection 31A-17-609(1).
(187) "Third party administrator" or "administrator" means a person who collects charges or
premiums from, or who, for consideration, adjusts or settles claims of residents of the state in
connection with insurance coverage, annuities, or service insurance coverage, except:
(a) a union on behalf of its members;
(b) a person administering a:
(i) pension plan subject to the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974;
(ii) governmental plan as defined in Section 414(d), Internal Revenue Code; or
(iii) nonelecting church plan as described in Section 410(d), Internal Revenue Code;
(c) an employer on behalf of the employer's employees or the employees of one or more of the
subsidiary or affiliated corporations of the employer;
(d) an insurer licensed under the following, but only for a line of insurance for which the insurer
holds a license in this state:
(i) Chapter 5, Domestic Stock and Mutual Insurance Corporations;
(ii) Chapter 7, Nonprofit Health Service Insurance Corporations;
(iii) Chapter 8, Health Maintenance Organizations and Limited Health Plans;
(iv) Chapter 9, Insurance Fraternals; or
(v) Chapter 14, Foreign Insurers;
(e) a person:
(i) licensed or exempt from licensing under:
(A) Chapter 23a, Insurance Marketing - Licensing Producers, Consultants, and Reinsurance
Intermediaries; or
(B) Chapter 26, Insurance Adjusters; and
(ii) whose activities are limited to those authorized under the license the person holds or for
which the person is exempt; or
(f) an institution, bank, or financial institution:

(i) that is:
(A) an institution whose deposits and accounts are to any extent insured by a federal deposit
insurance agency, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or National Credit
Union Administration; or
(B) a bank or other financial institution that is subject to supervision or examination by a
federal or state banking authority; and
(ii) that does not adjust claims without a third party administrator license.
(188) "Title insurance" means the insuring, guaranteeing, or indemnifying of an owner of real or
personal property or the holder of liens or encumbrances on that property, or others interested
in the property against loss or damage suffered by reason of liens or encumbrances upon,
defects in, or the unmarketability of the title to the property, or invalidity or unenforceability of
any liens or encumbrances on the property.
(189) "Total adjusted capital" means the sum of an insurer's or health organization's statutory
capital and surplus as determined in accordance with:
(a) the statutory accounting applicable to the annual financial statements required to be filed
under Section 31A-4-113; and
(b) another item provided by the RBC instructions, as RBC instructions is defined in Section
31A-17-601.
(190)
(a) "Trustee" means "director" when referring to the board of directors of a corporation.
(b) "Trustee," when used in reference to an employee welfare fund, means an individual, firm,
association, organization, joint stock company, or corporation, whether acting individually
or jointly and whether designated by that name or any other, that is charged with or has the
overall management of an employee welfare fund.
(191)
(a) "Unauthorized insurer," "unadmitted insurer," or "nonadmitted insurer" means an insurer:
(i) not holding a valid certificate of authority to do an insurance business in this state; or
(ii) transacting business not authorized by a valid certificate.
(b) "Admitted insurer" or "authorized insurer" means an insurer:
(i) holding a valid certificate of authority to do an insurance business in this state; and
(ii) transacting business as authorized by a valid certificate.
(192) "Underwrite" means the authority to accept or reject risk on behalf of the insurer.
(193) "Vehicle liability insurance" means insurance against liability resulting from or incident
to ownership, maintenance, or use of a land vehicle or aircraft, exclusive of a vehicle
comprehensive or vehicle physical damage coverage described in Subsection (160).
(194) "Voting security" means a security with voting rights, and includes a security convertible into
a security with a voting right associated with the security.
(195) "Waiting period" for a health benefit plan means the period that must pass before coverage
for an individual, who is otherwise eligible to enroll under the terms of the health benefit plan,
can become effective.
(196) "Workers' compensation insurance" means:
(a) insurance for indemnification of an employer against liability for compensation based on:
(i) a compensable accidental injury; and
(ii) occupational disease disability;
(b) employer's liability insurance incidental to workers' compensation insurance and written in
connection with workers' compensation insurance; and
(c) insurance assuring to a person entitled to workers' compensation benefits the compensation
provided by law.

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