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Terms Used In Indiana Code 34-50-2-10

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • structured settlement: means periodic payments of damages established by a settlement or a court judgment in resolution of a tort claim for personal injury. See Indiana Code 34-50-2-2
  • transfer: means a:

    Indiana Code 34-50-2-3

  • transferee: means a party acquiring or proposing to acquire structured settlement payment rights through a transfer agreement. See Indiana Code 34-50-2-4
   Sec. 10. After a transfer that has been approved in accordance with this chapter, a structured settlement obligor and an annuity issuer are immune from liability to a payee, or to a party other than a transferee who is claiming through the payee, for paying structured settlement payments to a transferee.

As added by P.L.219-2001, SEC.6.