Terms Used In California Codes > Insurance Code > Division 1 > Part 2 > Chapter 5 > Article 15.5 - Cargo Shippers' Agents

• 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.
• Casualty broker-agent: means a person licensed pursuant to Section 1625. See California Insurance Code 33.5
• Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner of this State. See California Insurance Code 20
• 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
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• 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
• organization: means any legal entity other than a natural person. See California Insurance Code 1628
• 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

• Property broker-agent: means a person licensed pursuant to Section 1625. See California Insurance Code 33.5
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23