Terms Used In Iowa Code 508E.5

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
508E.5 Approval of viatical settlement contracts and disclosure statements.
A person shall not use a viatical settlement contract form or provide to a viator a disclosure
statement form in this state unless first filed with and approved by the commissioner. The commissioner shall disapprove a viatical settlement contract form or disclosure statement form if, in the commissioner’s opinion, the contract or provisions contained therein fail to meet the requirements of sections 508E.8, 508E.10, 508E.14, and 508E.15, subsection 2, or are unreasonable, contrary to the interests of the public, or otherwise misleading or unfair to the viator. At the commissioner’s discretion, the commissioner may require the submission of advertising material. The commissioner’s approval of any of the materials shall not be a defense or otherwise preclude a civil action for fraud.
2008 Acts, ch 1155, §5