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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 8 Sec. 4694

  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Market: means the statewide interaction between buyers and sellers of a particular line of insurance or product market component. See
  • Rate: means the cost of insurance per exposure base unit, or cost per unit of insurance, prior to the application of individual risk variations based upon loss or expense considerations, and does not include minimum premiums. See
  • Supplementary rate information: includes any manual, schedule, or plan of rates, classification system, rating schedule, minimum premium, policy fee, rating rule, rating plan, or any other similar information needed or used to determine the applicable premium in effect or to be in effect for an insured. See

§ 4694. Residual market mechanism status

All insurers authorized to write insurance that is subject to this chapter may establish and participate in a plan providing for the equitable apportionment among them of insurance that may be afforded applicants who are in good faith entitled to, but who are unable to, procure such insurance through ordinary methods. A plan shall be submitted for the Commissioner’s prior approval, unless already existing on July 1, 1984. The rates, supplementary rate information, and policy forms to be used in such a plan and any future modification thereof must be submitted to the Commissioner for approval in accordance with sections 4686, 4687, and 4688 of this title. (Added 1983, No. 238 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)