Credit life insurance and credit accident and health insurance may be issued only in the following forms:

(1)  individual policies of term life insurance issued to debtors;

Terms Used In Utah Code 31A-22-803

  • Accident and health insurance: means insurance to provide protection against economic losses resulting from:
(i) a medical condition including:
(A) a medical care expense; or
(B) the risk of disability;
(ii) accident; or
(iii) sickness. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Credit life insurance: means life insurance on the life of a debtor in connection with a specific loan or credit transaction. See Utah Code 31A-22-802
  • health insurance: means insurance providing:
    (i) a health care benefit; or
    (ii) payment of an incurred health care expense. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Individual: means a natural person. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Insurance: includes :
    (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;
    (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
    (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
  • Life insurance: means :
    (i) insurance on a human life; and
    (ii) insurance pertaining to or connected with human life. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
    (2)  individual policies of term accident and health insurance issued to debtors, or accident and health benefit provisions in individual policies of credit life insurance;

    (3)  group policies of term life insurance issued to creditors, providing insurance upon the lives of debtors;

    (4)  group policies of term accident and health insurance issued to creditors insuring debtors, or accident and health benefit provisions in group credit life insurance policies.

    Amended by Chapter 116, 2001 General Session