Terms Used In Michigan Laws 500.725

  • Insurer: means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, Lloyds organization, fraternal benefit society, or other legal entity, engaged or attempting to engage in the business of making insurance or surety contracts. See Michigan Laws 500.106
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Reserve: means all items of benefit liability, whether in the nature of incurred claim liability or in the nature of contract liability relating to future periods of coverage, and whether the liability is accrued or unaccrued. See Michigan Laws 500.701
   Increases to, or credits against, reserves carried arising because of reinsurance assumed or reinsurance ceded, shall be determined in a manner consistent with minimum reserve standards described in this chapter and with all applicable provisions of the reinsurance contracts that affect the insurer‘s liabilities.