Terms Used In Utah Code 31A-2-210

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• business of insurance: includes :
       (98)(a) providing health care insurance by an organization that is or is required to be licensed under this title;
       (98)(b) providing a benefit to an employee in the event of a contingency not within the control of the employee, in which the employee is entitled to the benefit as a right, which benefit may be provided either:

            (98)(b)(i) by a single employer or by multiple employer groups; or

            (98)(b)(ii) through one or more trusts, associations, or other entities;
       (98)(c) providing an annuity:

            (98)(c)(i) including an annuity issued in return for a gift; and

            (98)(c)(ii) except an annuity provided by a person specified in Subsections 31A-22-1305(2) and (3);
       (98)(d) providing the characteristic services of a motor club;
       (98)(e) providing another person with insurance;
       (98)(f) making as insurer, guarantor, or surety, or proposing to make as insurer, guarantor, or surety, a contract or policy offering title insurance;
       (98)(g) transacting or proposing to transact any phase of title insurance, including:

            (98)(g)(i) solicitation;

            (98)(g)(ii) negotiation preliminary to execution;

            (98)(g)(iii) execution of a contract of title insurance;

            (98)(g)(iv) insuring; and

            (98)(g)(v) transacting matters subsequent to the execution of the contract and arising out of the contract, including reinsurance;
       (98)(h) transacting or proposing a life settlement; and
       (98)(i) doing, or proposing to do, any business in substance equivalent to Subsections (98)(a) through (h) in a manner designed to evade this title. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
• Department: means the Insurance Department. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
• Insurance: includes :
            (96)(b)(i) a risk distributing arrangement providing for compensation or replacement for damages or loss through the provision of a service or a benefit in kind;
            (96)(b)(ii) a contract of guaranty or suretyship entered into by the guarantor or surety as a business and not as merely incidental to a business transaction; and
            (96)(b)(iii) a plan in which the risk does not rest upon the person who makes an arrangement, but with a class of persons who have agreed to share the risk. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
• 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.
• NAIC: means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5