Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-6.5-5

  • certificate of authority: means an instrument in writing issued by the department to an insurer, which sets out the authority of such insurer to engage in the business of insurance or activities connected therewith. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • 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
  • insurer: means a company, firm, partnership, association, order, society or system making any kind or kinds of insurance and shall include associations operating as Lloyds, reciprocal or inter-insurers, or individual underwriters. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
   Sec. 5. When any insurer admitted to transact business in this state transfers its domicile to this or any other state, its certificate of authority, insurance producers’ appointments and licenses, policy forms, rates, authorizations, and other filings and approvals which existed at the time of the transfer, remain in effect after the transfer of domicile occurs.

As added by Acts 1980, P.L.170, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.178-2003, SEC.15.