Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes > 215 ILCS 5 > Article VIIC - Domestic Captive Insurance Companies
Affiliated company: includes a parent entity that controls a captive insurance company and: (1) is an affiliate of another entity if the entity
directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the other entity. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/123C-1
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.
Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
Association: means any entity meeting the requirements set forth in either of the following paragraphs (1), (2) or (3): (1) any organized association of individuals, legal
representatives, corporations (whether for profit or not for profit), partnerships, trusts, associations, units of government or other organizations, or any combination of the foregoing, that has been in continuous existence for at least one year, the member organizations of which collectively:
(a) own, control, or hold with power to vote
(directly or indirectly) all of the outstanding voting securities of an association captive insurance company incorporated as a stock insurer; or
(b) have complete voting control (directly or
indirectly) over an association captive insurance company organized as a mutual insurer;
(2) any organized association of individuals, legal
representatives, corporations (whether for profit or not for profit), partnerships, trusts, associations, units of government or other organizations, or any combination of the foregoing:
(a) whose member organizations are engaged in
businesses or activities similar or related with respect to the liability of which such members are exposed by virtue of any related, similar, or common business, trade, product, services, premises, or operations; and
(b) whose member organizations: (i) directly or indirectly own or control,
and hold with power to vote, at least 80% of all of the outstanding voting securities of an association captive insurance company incorporated as a stock insurer; or
(ii) directly or indirectly have at least 80%
of the voting control over an association captive insurance company organized as a mutual insurer; or
(3) any risk retention group, as defined in
subsection (11) of Section 123B-2, domiciled in this State and organized under this Article; however, beginning 6 months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1995, a risk retention group shall no longer qualify as an association under this Article. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/123C-1
Association captive insurance company: means any company that insures risks of (i) the member organizations of an association, and (ii) their affiliated companies. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/123C-1
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
Captive insurance company: means any pure captive insurance company, association captive insurance company or industrial insured captive insurance company organized under the provisions of this Article. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/123C-1
Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
Control: means the power to direct, or cause the direction of, the management and policies of an entity, other than the power that results from an official position with or corporate office held in the entity. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/123C-1
Controlled unaffiliated business: means an entity: (1) that is not an affiliate; (2) that has an existing contractual relationship
with an affiliate under which the affiliate bears a potential financial loss; and
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.
Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
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.
Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.36
Industrial insured: means an insured which (together with its affiliates) at the time of its initial procurement of insurance from an industrial insured captive insurance company: (1) has available to it advice with respect to the
purchase of insurance through the use of the services of a full-time employee acting as an insurance manager or buyer or the services of a regularly and continuously retained qualified insurance consultant; and
(2) pays aggregate annual premiums in excess of
$100,000 for insurance on all risks except for life, accident and health; and
(3) either (i) has at least 25 full-time employees,
Industrial insured captive insurance company: means any company that insures risks of industrial insureds that are members of the industrial insured group, and their affiliated companies. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/123C-1
Industrial insured group: means any group of industrial insureds that collectively: (1) directly or indirectly (including ownership or
control through a company which is wholly owned by such group of industrial insureds) own or control, and hold with power to vote, all of the outstanding voting securities of an industrial insured captive insurance company incorporated as a stock insurer; or
(2) directly or indirectly (including control through
a company which is wholly owned by such group of industrial insureds) have complete voting control over an industrial insured captive insurance company organized as a mutual insurer; provided, however, that no member organization may (i) own, control, or hold with power to vote in excess of 25% of the voting securities of an industrial insured captive insurance company incorporated as a stock insurer, or (ii) have more than 25% of the voting control of an industrial insured captive insurance company organized as a mutual insurer. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/123C-1
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.
Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
Member organization: means any individual, legal representative, corporation (whether for profit or not for profit), partnership, association, unit of government, trust or other organization that belongs to an association or an industrial insured group. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/123C-1
Month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" a calendar year unless otherwise expressed; and the word "year" alone, is equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.10
Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
Parent: means a corporation, partnership, individual or other legal entity that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote more than 50% of the outstanding voting securities of a company. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/123C-1
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.
Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
Qualified independent actuary: means a person that is either: (1) a member in good standing with the Casualty
Actuarial Society; or
(2) a member in good standing with the American
Academy of Actuaries who has been approved as qualified for signing casualty loss reserve opinions by the Casualty Practice Council of the American Academy of Actuaries. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/123C-1
Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
State: when applied to different parts of the United States, may be construed to include the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14
Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
Unit of government: includes any state, regional or local government, or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any district, authority, public educational institution or school district, public corporation or other unit of government in this State or any similar unit of government in any other state. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/123C-1
