§ 20-341 Purpose of insurance rate regulation
§ 20-342 Scope and application of article
§ 20-343 Definitions
§ 20-344 Uniform plans
§ 20-356 Making of rates
§ 20-357 Filing of rating system; definition
§ 20-358 Disapproval of rates
§ 20-359 Deviations from filed workers’ compensation rates
§ 20-361 Licensing of rating organizations
§ 20-362 Notice to director of changes in rating organization
§ 20-363 Availability of services of rating organization to members
§ 20-364 Technical services
§ 20-365 Cooperation in rate making
§ 20-366 Appeal by member or subscriber from action relating to filings
§ 20-367 Workers’ compensation appeals board; composition
§ 20-367.01 Appeals procedure
§ 20-368 Advisory organizations
§ 20-369 Joint underwriting or joint reinsurance
§ 20-370 Examinations of rating organizations
§ 20-371 Rate administration
§ 20-372 Disclosure of information relating to rates
§ 20-373 Commissions and fees
§ 20-374 Revocation and suspension of licenses
§ 20-375 Making of title insurance rates
§ 20-376 Filing of title insurance rates; approval or disapproval
§ 20-377 Justification for title insurance rates
§ 20-378 Disapproval of title insurance filings
§ 20-379 Deviations in title insurance rates

Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 20 > Chapter 2 > Article 4 - Rates and Rating Organizations

  • Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Board: means the workers' compensation appeals board established by section 20-367. See Arizona Laws 20-343
  • Classification plan: means the plan or system that groups industries, occupations or operations with a similar exposure to loss into rate classifications for workers' compensation rating, rate making and statistical reporting purposes. See Arizona Laws 20-343
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • department: means the department of insurance and financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 20-101
  • Designated rating organization: means the rating organization selected by the director pursuant to section 20-371, subsection F. See Arizona Laws 20-343
  • Designated statistical agent: means the organization designated by the director under section 20-371, subsection D. See Arizona Laws 20-343
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Experience rating plan: means a mandatory rating plan for all eligible insureds that establishes a workers' compensation rating procedure that compares the actual loss experience of individual insureds to the industry average for the same classification with differences reflected in the insured's premium. See Arizona Laws 20-343
  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Schedule rating plan: means a rating plan by which an insurer increases or decreases workers' compensation rates to reflect the individual risk characteristics or the loss ratios of the subject of insurance. See Arizona Laws 20-343
  • sent: means to deliver by United States mail, personal delivery or fax or by electronic means consistent with the requirements of section 20-239. See Arizona Laws 20-117
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Statistical plan: means the plan, system or arrangement used in collecting workers' compensation data. See Arizona Laws 20-343
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Uniform rate filing: means the rate filing that is made by the designated rating organization and that includes all of the workers' compensation rates to which insurers transacting workers' compensation insurance in this state shall adhere except as provided in section 20-359, subsections A and B. See Arizona Laws 20-343
  • Wilfully: means , with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware or believes that the person's conduct is of that nature or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215