Terms Used In Utah Code 31A-3-302

• 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 Rate: means : (i)  the cost of a given unit of insurance; or (ii)  for property or casualty insurance, that cost of insurance per exposure unit either expressed as: (A)  a single number; or (B)  a pure premium rate, adjusted before the application of individual risk variations based on loss or expense considerations to account for the treatment of: (I)  expenses; (II)  profit; and (III)  individual insurer variation in loss experience. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Surplus: means the excess of assets over the sum of paid-in capital and liabilities. See Utah Code 31A-1-301      An insurance transaction under Chapter 15, Unauthorized Insurers, Surplus Lines, and Risk Retention Groups, which violates the restrictions placed on transactions by that chapter shall be taxed at a rate four percentage points higher than the applicable rate under Section 59-9-101. Amended by Chapter 2, 1987 General Session   Previous section Next section    Part 3 Contents