Maine Revised Statutes > Title 22 > Subtitle 2 > Part 3 > Chapter 260 – Consent of Minors for Health Services
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- Adult: means a person who has attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Adverse underwriting decision: means any of the following actions with respect to consumer insurance transactions involving insurance coverage that is individually underwritten:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2204Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it. Applicant: means any person who seeks to contract for insurance coverage other than a person seeking group insurance that is not individually underwritten. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2204 carrier: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2204Confidential investigative information: means any information that:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2204consumer: means any individual who resides or obtains insurance in this State and:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2204Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. Source: OCC Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs. Health care: includes prescribing, dispensing, furnishing or providing to a patient drugs, biologicals, medical devices, health care equipment and supplies or hospice services and the banking of blood, sperm, organs or any other tissue. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2204 Health care: means any care, treatment, service or procedure to maintain, diagnose or otherwise affect an individual's physical or mental condition. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 1501 Health care information: means information that:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2204Health care practitioner: means a person licensed in this State to provide or otherwise lawfully providing health care, and includes a partnership or corporation made up of health care practitioners, or an officer, employee, agent or contractor of a health care practitioner acting in the course and scope of employment, agency or contract related to or supportive of the provision of health care to an individual. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2204 Health care provider: means a health care practitioner or health care facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2204 Institutional source: means any person or governmental entity that provides information about an individual to a regulated insurance entity or insurance support organization other than:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2204Insurance support organization: means any person, other than a regulated insurance entity, health care provider or governmental agency, who regularly engages, in whole or in part, in the practice of assembling or collecting information for the primary purpose of providing the information to carriers, producers or agencies for insurance transactions, including:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2204Insurance transaction: means any transaction that entails:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2204Minor: means a person under 18 years of age. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 1501 Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period. Personal information: includes but is not limited to an individual's name and address and health care information. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2204 Policyholder: means any person who:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2204Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC Regulated insurance entity: means any person or entity required to be licensed by the superintendent under this Title or Title 24, including without limitation a carrier, producer, producer agency or administrator. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2204 Residual market: means any special-purpose insurer, association, organization or other entity that provides insurance coverage to persons who are unable to obtain it in the voluntary market. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2204 Surrogate: means :