(a) Every prepaid limited health services contract must be executed in the name of and on behalf of the prepaid limited health service organization by its officer, attorney in fact, employee, or representative duly authorized by the organization.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-51-119

  • Attorney: means the person designated and authorized by subscribers as the attorney-in-fact having authority to obligate them on reciprocal insurance contracts. See Tennessee Code 56-16-102
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Limited health service: means dental care services, vision care services, mental health services, substance abuse services, and pharmaceutical services. See Tennessee Code 56-51-102
  • Prepaid limited health service organization: means any person, corporation, partnership, or any other entity that, in return for a prepayment from a health maintenance organization or a state or federal agency, undertakes to provide or arrange for, or provide access to, the provision of a limited health service to enrollees through an exclusive panel of providers. See Tennessee Code 56-51-102
  • Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) A facsimile signature of any executing individual may be used in lieu of an original signature.
(c) No prepaid limited health services contract that is otherwise valid is rendered invalid by reason of the apparent execution of the contract on behalf of the prepaid limited health service organization by the imprinted facsimile signature of an individual not authorized so to execute as of the date of the contract.
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