Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes > Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Insurance Coverage Act

• Acquire: when used in connection with a grant of power or property right to any person shall include the purchase, grant, gift, devise, bequest, and obtaining by eminent domain. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Affiliated insurer: shall mean an insurer who directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another person. See Nebraska Statutes 44-6403
• 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.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: shall mean the Director of Insurance. See Nebraska Statutes 44-103
• Domestic: when applied to corporations shall mean all those created by authority of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• 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.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Insurer: shall include all companies, exchanges, societies, or associations whether organized on the stock, mutual, assessment, or fraternal plan of insurance and reciprocal insurance exchanges. See Nebraska Statutes 44-103
• Insurer shall: include all companies, exchanges, societies, or associations whether organized on the stock, mutual, assessment, or fraternal plan of insurance and reciprocal insurance exchanges. See Nebraska Statutes 44-103
• 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.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Magistrate: shall include judge of the county court and clerk magistrate. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Motor vehicle: shall mean a motor vehicle as defined in section 60-501. See Nebraska Statutes 44-6404
• Peace officer: shall include sheriffs, coroners, jailers, marshals, police officers, state highway patrol officers, members of the National Guard on active service by direction of the Governor during periods of emergency, and all other persons with similar authority to make arrests. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Sworn: shall include affirmed in all cases in which an affirmation may be substituted for an oath. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Underinsured motor vehicle: shall mean a motor vehicle with respect to the ownership, operation, maintenance, or use of which there is bodily injury liability insurance or a bond applicable at the time of the accident and the amount of the insurance or bond is less than or has been reduced by payments to persons, other than an insured, injured in the accident to less than the damages for bodily injury, sickness, disease, or death sustained by the insured. See Nebraska Statutes 44-6406
• Uninsured motor vehicle: shall mean a motor vehicle with respect to the ownership, operation, maintenance, or use of which:

  (1) There is no bodily injury liability insurance or bond applicable at the time of the accident. See Nebraska Statutes 44-6405

• United States: shall include territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Year: shall mean calendar year. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801