Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 20 > Chapter 2 > Article 14 - Enforcement of Insurance Policies Affecting Certain Holocaust Victims

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Holocaust victim: means a person who was killed or injured or who lost real or personal property or financial assets as the result of discriminatory laws, policies or actions directed against a discrete group of which the person was a member, during the period beginning in 1920 through 1945, in Germany, areas occupied by Germany or countries allied with Germany. See Arizona Laws 20-490
• Insurance policy: includes a life insurance policy, an annuity, a property insurance policy, a casualty insurance policy, a liability insurance policy and reinsurance on a risk covered under such a policy. See Arizona Laws 20-490
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215