Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-2-2

  • 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
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
   Sec. 2. This article shall be applicable to all persons, firms, partnerships, corporations, associations, orders, societies, and systems and to associations operating as Lloyds, interinsurers, or individual underwriters authorized as of March 8, 1935, to make insurance under the provisions of any statute enacted prior to March 8, 1935, or organized or incorporated before or after March 8, 1935, under the provisions of any statute of this state, or which are doing or attempting to do, or which are representing that they are doing an insurance business in this state, or which are in process of organization for the purpose of doing or attempting to do such business. All domestic, foreign, and alien companies authorized to do business in this state shall be subject to this article; however, any not-for-profit corporation which pays death benefits to the owner of a valuable registered horse on the death of said horse shall for that purpose not be subject to this article.

Formerly: Acts 1935, c.162, s.2; Acts 1973, P.L.269, SEC.1. As amended by P.L.252-1985, SEC.4; P.L.8-1993, SEC.408.