Alaska Statutes 21.12.070 – Casualty insurance defined

(a) Casualty insurance includes

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 21.12.070

Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
Personal property: All property that is not real property.
personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060

(1) vehicle insurance: insurance against loss of or damage to a land vehicle or aircraft or a draft or riding animal or to property while contained therein or thereon or being loaded or unloaded therein or therefrom, from any hazard or cause, and against any loss, liability, or expense resulting from or incidental to ownership, maintenance, or use of the vehicle, aircraft, or animal; and provision for medical, hospital, surgical, disability benefits to injured persons and funeral and death benefits to dependents, beneficiaries, or personal representatives of persons killed, irrespective of legal liability to the insured, if issued as an incidental coverage with or supplemental to insurance on the vehicle, aircraft, or animal;

(2) liability insurance: insurance against legal liability for the death, injury or disability of a human being, or for damage to property; and provision of medical, hospital, surgical, disability benefits to injured persons and funeral and death benefits to dependents, beneficiaries or personal representatives of persons killed, irrespective of legal liability of the insured, if issued as an incidental coverage with or supplemental to liability insurance;

(3) workers’ compensation and employer’s liability: insurance of the obligations accepted by, imposed upon, or assumed by employers under law for death, disablement, or injury of employees;

(4) burglary and theft: insurance against loss or damage by burglary, theft, larceny, robbery, forgery, fraud, vandalism, malicious mischief, confiscation, or wrongful conversion, disposal, or concealment, or from an attempt at any of the foregoing; including supplemental coverage for medical, hospital, surgical, and funeral expense incurred by the named insured or any other person as a result of bodily injury during the commission of a burglary, robbery, or theft by another; also insurance against loss of or damage to money, coins, bullion, securities, notes, drafts, acceptances, or other valuable papers and documents, resulting from any cause;

(5) personal property floater: insurance upon personal effects against loss or damage from any cause under a personal property floater;

(6) glass: insurance against loss or damage to glass, including its lettering, ornamentation, and fittings;

(7) boiler and machinery: insurance against any liability and loss or damage to property or interest resulting from accident to or explosions of boilers, pipes, pressure containers, machinery, or apparatus, and to make inspection of and issue certificates of inspection upon boilers, machinery, and apparatus of any kind, whether or not insured;

(8) leakage and fire extinguishing equipment: insurance against loss or damage to any property or interest caused by the breakage or leakage of sprinklers, hoses, pumps, and other fire extinguishing equipment or apparatus, water pipes or containers, or by water entering through leaks or openings in buildings, and insurance against loss or damage to the sprinklers, hoses, pumps, and other fire extinguishing equipment or apparatus;

(9) credit: insurance against loss or damage resulting from failure of debtors to pay their obligations to the insured;

(10) malpractice: insurance against legal liability of the insured, and against loss, damage, or expense incidental to a claim of liability, and including medical, hospital, surgical, and funeral benefits to injured persons, irrespective of legal liability of the insured, arising out of the death, injury or disablement of a person, or arising out of damage to the economic interest of a person, as the result of negligence in rendering expert, fiduciary, or professional service;

(11) elevator: insurance against loss of or damage to any property of the insured, resulting from the ownership, maintenance, or use of elevators, except loss or damage by fire, and to make inspection of and issue certificates of inspection on elevators;

(12) livestock: insurance against loss or damage to livestock, and services of a veterinary for the animals;

(13) entertainments: insurance indemnifying the producer of a motion picture, television, radio, theatrical, sport, spectacle, entertainment, or similar production, event, or exhibition against loss from interruption, postponement, or cancellation due to death, accidental injury, or sickness of performers, participants, directors, or other principals;

(14) miscellaneous: insurance against any other kind of loss, damage, or liability properly a subject of insurance and not within another kind of insurance as defined in this chapter, if the insurance is not disapproved by the director as being contrary to law or public policy.

(b) The provision of medical, hospital, surgical, and funeral benefits, and of coverage against accidental death or injury, as incidental to and part of other insurance defined in (a)(1), (2), (4), and (10) of this section, shall for all purposes be considered to be the same kind of insurance to which it is incidental, and is not subject to provisions of this title applicable to life or health insurance.

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