Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 500 > Act 218 of 1956 > Chapter 70 - Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Board: means the board of trustees of the multiple employer welfare arrangement security fund. See Michigan Laws 500.7001
• Board: means the board of trustees of the library created in section 4. See Michigan Laws 397.12
• Cash reserves: means federally guaranteed obligations that have a fixed recoverable principal amount or an irrevocable and unconditional letter of credit. See Michigan Laws 500.7001
• Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Covered claim: means an obligation of an insolvent MEWA to pay a claim that is covered by the MEWA to a covered employee or dependent who is a resident of this state. See Michigan Laws 500.7001
• Department: means the department of history, arts, and libraries. See Michigan Laws 397.12
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means , unless the context clearly implies a different meaning, the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 500.102
• Employee welfare benefit plan: means that term as defined in section 3 of the employee retirement income security act of 1974, Public Law 93-406, 88 Stat. See Michigan Laws 500.7001
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the multiple employer welfare arrangement security fund. See Michigan Laws 500.7001
• in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
• 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
• Letter of credit: means a letter of credit that meets all of the following requirements: