A captive insurance company may not adopt a name that is:
Terms Used In Utah Code 31A-37-203
Application: means a document:
(a)
(i)
completed by an applicant to provide information about the risk to be insured; and
(ii)
that contains information that is used by the insurer to evaluate risk and decide whether to:
(A)
insure the risk under:
(I)
the coverage as originally offered; or
(II)
a modification of the coverage as originally offered; or
(B)
decline to insure the risk; or
(b)
used by the insurer to gather information from the applicant before issuance of an annuity contract. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
Captive insurance company: includes any of the following formed or holding a certificate of authority under this chapter:
(i)
a branch captive insurance company;
(ii)
a pure captive insurance company;
(iii)
an association captive insurance company;
(iv)
a sponsored captive insurance company;
(v)
an industrial insured captive insurance company, including an industrial insured captive insurance company formed as a risk retention group captive in this state pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986;
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
insurance company: means a person doing an insurance business as a principal including:
(i)
a fraternal benefit society;
(ii)
an issuer of a gift annuity other than an annuity specified in Subsections 31A-22-1305(2) and (3);
(iii)
a motor club;
(iv)
an employee welfare plan;
(v)
a person purporting or intending to do an insurance business as a principal on that person's own account; and
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
(a)
the same as any other existing business name registered in this state;
(b)
deceptively similar to any other existing business name registered in this state; or
(c)
likely to be:
(i)
confused with any other existing business name registered in this state; or
(ii)
mistaken for any other existing business name registered in this state.
(2)
An applicant captive insurance company that submits an application for a certificate of authority on or after May 14, 2019, or a captive insurance company that changes its name on or after May 14, 2019, shall include the word “insurance” or a term of equivalent meaning in its name.
