This chapter applies to all kinds of direct insurance written by an admitted insurer, except that this chapter does not apply to the following:

(1) life, annuity, health, or disability insurance;

Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 21.80.020

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
(2) residual value, mortgage guaranty, or financial guaranty of other forms of insurance offering protection against investment risks;
(3) bonding obligations, including fidelity or surety bonds;
(4) insurance protecting the interests of a creditor arising out of a creditor-debtor transaction, including credit insurance, vendors’ single interest insurance, or collateral protection insurance;
(5) insurance of warranties or service contracts, including insurance providing for

(A) the repair, replacement, or service of goods or property;
(B) indemnification for repair, replacement, or service of goods or property; or
(C) reimbursement for liability incurred by a person issuing a warranty or service contract;
(6) title insurance;
(7) a transaction or combination of transactions between a person, including the person’s affiliates, and an insurer, including the insurer’s affiliates, that involves the transfer of investment or credit risk unaccompanied by the transfer of insurance risk;
(8) insurance provided by or guaranteed by a government;
(9) a risk retention group formed under 15 U.S.C. § 3901 – 3906 (Liability Risk Retention Act);
(10) insurance written on a retroactive basis to cover known losses for which a claim has already been made and the claim is known to the insurer at the time the insurance is bound.
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