Terms Used In California Codes > Insurance Code > Division 1 > Part 2 > Chapter 5 > Article 15 - Travel Insurance Agents

• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner of this State. See California Insurance Code 20
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
• department: means the State Department of Health Care Services and "director" means the Director of Health Care Services. See California Health and Safety Code 11752
• Director: means "State Director of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 21
• 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.
• insurance agent: as used in this chapter does not include a life agent as defined in this article. See California Insurance Code 1621
• license: includes a certificate of convenience and a permanent license, and the term "persons who are licensed" includes the holders of any such certificate or the license, but these definitions and the use of those terms in this chapter shall not confer upon a certificate of convenience or any holder thereof any property right in or to the certificate, the certificate being and remaining only a temporary permit, issued as a matter of convenience, allowing the transaction of insurance without a permanent license, but within the limits, and subject to the conditions of the certificate of convenience issued and the laws applicable thereto. See California Insurance Code 1627
• licensee: means an insurer, agent, broker, or any other person who is required to be licensed by the department. See California Insurance Code 38.6
• Limited lines travel insurance agent: means an insurer designee that is licensed to transact travel insurance, as defined in subdivision (b). See California Insurance Code 1753
• organization: means any legal entity other than a natural person. See California Insurance Code 1628
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
• Person: means any person, association, organization, partnership, business trust, limited liability company, or corporation. See California Insurance Code 19
• program: means a business entity with a physical location in the State of California that provides one or more of the following services to clients:

  California Health and Safety Code 11832.2

• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Insurance Code 28
• Transact: means , for the purposes of this article, the following activities when engaged in by a travel retailer:

  California Insurance Code 1753

• Travel insurance: means insurance coverage for personal risks incidental to planned travel, including one or more of the following:

  California Insurance Code 1753

• Travel retailer: means a business organization that makes, arranges, or offers travel services and may offer and disseminate travel insurance as a service to its customers on behalf of and under the direction of a limited lines travel insurance agent. See California Insurance Code 1753