Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-12.3-6

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Insurance: means a contract of insurance or an agreement by which one (1) party, for a consideration, promises to pay money or its equivalent or to do an act valuable to the insured upon the destruction, loss or injury of something in which the other party has a pecuniary interest, or in consideration of a price paid, adequate to the risk, becomes security to the other against loss by certain specified risks; to grant indemnity or security against loss for a consideration. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • Policyholder: includes the owner of the policy or the person designated to pay premiums as shown on the records of the life insurer. See Indiana Code 27-1-12.3-1
   Sec. 6. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any insurance contract issued before September 1, 1981, unless the policyholder agrees in writing to the applicability of such provisions.

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.240, SEC.1.