Terms Used In Virginia Code 38.2-603

• Commission: means the State Corporation Commission. See Virginia Code 38.2-100
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Insurance institution: means any corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, Lloyd's type of organization, fraternal benefit society, or other person engaged in the business of insurance, including health maintenance organizations, and health, legal, dental, and optometric service plans. See Virginia Code 38.2-602
• Insurance transaction: means any transaction involving insurance primarily for personal, family, or household needs rather than business or professional needs that entails:

  1. See Virginia Code 38.2-602

• Insurance-support organization: means any person who regularly engages, in whole or in part, in the practice of assembling or collecting information about natural persons for the primary purpose of providing the information to an insurance institution or agent for insurance transactions, including (i) the furnishing of consumer reports or investigative consumer reports to an insurance institution or agent for use in connection with an insurance transaction or (ii) the collection of personal information from insurance institutions, agents or other insurance-support organizations for the purpose of detecting or preventing fraud, material misrepresentation or material nondisclosure in connection with insurance underwriting or insurance claim activity. See Virginia Code 38.2-602
• Person: means any association, aggregate of individuals, business, company, corporation, individual, joint-stock company, Lloyds type of organization, organization, partnership, receiver, reciprocal or interinsurance exchange, trustee or society. See Virginia Code 38.2-100
• Pretext interview: means an interview whereby a person, in an attempt to obtain information about a natural person, performs one or more of the following acts:

  1. See Virginia Code 38.2-602