Indiana Code 27-1-3-5. Certified copies of documents and commissioner’s certification of facts as prima facie evidence
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Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-3-5
- Commissioner: means the "insurance commissioner" of this state. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
- Department: means "the department of insurance" of this state. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
- 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: 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
Sec. 5. Copies of all certificates, documents, reports, or other papers lawfully received and filed by the department pursuant to this article or any other law of this state, when duly certified by the commissioner or any deputy and authenticated by the official seal of the department, shall be taken and received in all courts and places as prima facie evidence of the facts stated in the certificates, documents, reports, or other papers, and a certificate from the commissioner under the official seal of the department as to the existence or nonexistence of the facts relating to any insurance company which would not appear from a certified copy of any paper lawfully filed with the department shall be taken and received in all courts and places as prima facie evidence of the existence or nonexistence of the facts stated in the certificate from the commissioner.
Formerly: Acts 1935, c.162, s.12. As amended by P.L.252-1985, SEC.7; P.L.136-2018, SEC.144.