Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 65A > Chapter 4 - Acquisition and Disposition of Land by State Agencies

• 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 Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account. Bequest: Property gifted by will. business of insurance: includes : (a)  providing health care insurance by an organization that is or is required to be licensed under this title; (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: (i)  by a single employer or by multiple employer groups; or (ii)  through one or more trusts, associations, or other entities; (c)  providing an annuity: (i)  including an annuity issued in return for a gift; and (ii)  except an annuity provided by a person specified in Subsections 31A-22-1305(2) and (3); (d)  providing the characteristic services of a motor club; (e)  providing another person with insurance; (f)  making as insurer, guarantor, or surety, or proposing to make as insurer, guarantor, or surety, a contract or policy offering title insurance; (g)  transacting or proposing to transact any phase of title insurance, including: (i)  solicitation; (ii)  negotiation preliminary to execution; (iii)  execution of a contract of title insurance; (iv)  insuring; and (v)  transacting matters subsequent to the execution of the contract and arising out of the contract, including reinsurance; (h)  transacting or proposing a life settlement; and (i)  doing, or proposing to do, any business in substance equivalent to Subsections (95)(a) through (h) in a manner designed to evade this title. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Captive insurance company: means : (a)  an insurer: (i)  owned by a parent organization; and (ii)  whose purpose is to insure risks of the parent organization and other risks as authorized under: (A)  Chapter 37, Captive Insurance Companies Act; and (B)  Chapter 37a, Special Purpose Financial Captive Insurance Company Act; or (b)  in the case of a group or association, an insurer: (i)  owned by the insureds; and (ii)  whose purpose is to insure risks of: (A)  a member organization; (B)  a group member; or (C)  an affiliate of: (I)  a member organization; or (II)  a group member. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Certificate: means evidence of insurance given to: (a)  an insured under a group insurance policy; or (b)  a third party. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. Creditor: means a person, including an insured, having a claim, whether: (a)  matured; (b)  unmatured; (c)  liquidated; (d)  unliquidated; (e)  secured; (f)  unsecured; (g)  absolute; (h)  fixed; or (i)  contingent. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Devise: To gift property by will. Division: means the Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands. See Utah Code 65A-1-1 Donor: The person who makes a gift. Form: means one of the following prepared for general use: (i)  a policy; (ii)  a certificate; (iii)  an application; (iv)  an outline of coverage; or (v)  an endorsement. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value. Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it. 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 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 (vi)  a health maintenance organization. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period. Person: includes : (a)  an individual; (b)  a partnership; (c)  a corporation; (d)  an incorporated or unincorporated association; (e)  a joint stock company; (f)  a trust; (g)  a limited liability company; (h)  a reciprocal; (i)  a syndicate; or (j)  another similar entity or combination of entities acting in concert. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Proceeding: includes an action or special statutory proceeding. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. Source: FDIC Reinsurance: means an insurance transaction where an insurer, for consideration, transfers any portion of the risk it has assumed to another insurer. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Security: means a: (i)  note; (ii)  stock; (iii)  bond; (iv)  debenture; (v)  evidence of indebtedness; (vi)  certificate of interest or participation in a profit-sharing agreement; (vii)  collateral-trust certificate; (viii)  preorganization certificate or subscription; (ix)  transferable share; (x)  investment contract; (xi)  voting trust certificate; (xii)  certificate of deposit for a security; (xiii)  certificate of interest of participation in an oil, gas, or mining title or lease or in payments out of production under such a title or lease; (xiv)  commodity contract or commodity option; (xv)  certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim certificate for, receipt for, guarantee of, or warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase any of the items listed in Subsections (171)(a)(i) through (xiv); or (xvi)  another interest or instrument commonly known as a security. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Sovereign lands: means those lands lying below the ordinary high water mark of navigable bodies of water at the date of statehood and owned by the state by virtue of its sovereignty. See Utah Code 65A-1-1 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 Surplus: means the excess of assets over the sum of paid-in capital and liabilities. See Utah Code 31A-1-301