(1)  Domestic insurers authorized under former Title 31, Chapter 37, are, on July 1, 1986, automatically converted to domestic insurers authorized under this chapter. The commissioner may adopt any rules necessary to efficiently and safely effect the conversion.

Terms Used In Utah Code 31A-7-102

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Corporation: means an insurance corporation, except when referring to:
(i) a corporation doing business:
(A) as:
(I) an insurance producer;
(II) a surplus lines producer;
(III) a limited line producer;
(IV) a consultant;
(V) a managing general agent;
(VI) a reinsurance intermediary;
(VII) a third party administrator; or
(VIII) an adjuster; and
(B) under:
(I) Chapter 23a, Insurance Marketing - Licensing Producers, Consultants, and Reinsurance Intermediaries;
(II) Chapter 25, Third Party Administrators; or
(III) Chapter 26, Insurance Adjusters; or
(ii) a noninsurer that is part of a holding company system under Chapter 16, Insurance Holding Companies. 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
  • Mutual: means a mutual insurance corporation. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • (2)  Any nonprofit corporation incorporated under this chapter, or subject to this chapter under Subsection (1), and organized for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, and operating a nonprofit plan, whereby hospital care, medical-surgical care, dental care, and other health services are made available to persons who become subscribers to such a plan or plans under a contract with the nonprofit corporation, are subject to the provisions of this chapter.

    (3)  This chapter does not apply to persons licensed under:

    (a)  Chapter 5, Domestic Stock and Mutual Insurance Corporations;

    (b)  Chapter 8, Health Maintenance Organizations and Limited Health Plans;

    (c)  Chapter 9, Insurance Fraternals;

    (d)  Chapter 10, Annuities;

    (e)  Chapter 11, Motor Clubs; or

    (f)  Chapter 14, Foreign Insurers.

    Amended by Chapter 20, 1995 General Session