Texas Insurance Code 2212.001 – Definitions
Terms Used In Texas Insurance Code 2212.001
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
In this chapter:
(1) “Charitable organization” has the meaning assigned by Section 84.003, Civil Practice and Remedies Code.
(2) “Dentist” means a person licensed to practice dentistry in this state.
(3) “Health care liability claim” means a cause of action against a physician or dentist for treatment, lack of treatment, or other claimed departure from accepted standards of health care or safety that proximately results in injury to or death of the patient, whether the patient’s claim or cause of action sounds in tort or contract.
(4) “Physician” means a person licensed to practice medicine in this state.
(5) “Trust” means a self-insurance trust organized and operated under this chapter.
(6) “Volunteer health care provider” has the meaning assigned by Section 84.003, Civil Practice and Remedies Code.