Terms Used In Iowa Code 513A.5

  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance. See Iowa Code 510.1B
  • 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.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
 A third-party payor unable to establish that the third-party payor is subject to the jurisdiction of another agency of the state, any subdivision of the state, or the federal government, is subject to all appropriate provisions of Title XIII, subtitle 1, regarding the conduct of the business of the third-party payor including, but not limited to, filing with and approval by the commissioner of the form of the health benefit policy, contract, or certificate.