Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 3703 – Types of consumer credit insurance
The types of consumer credit insurance defined in § 3702 of this title may be written separately or in combination with other types of consumer credit insurance on an individual policy or group policy basis.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 3703
- Consumer credit insurance: is a general term used in this chapter to refer to any or all of credit life insurance credit accident and health insurance or any other insurance specifically defined in this chapter;
(3) "Credit accident and health insurance" means insurance on a debtor or debtors to provide indemnity for payments or debt becoming due on a specific loan or other credit transaction while the debtor is disabled as defined in the policy;
(4) "Credit life insurance" means insurance on a debtor or debtors, pursuant to or in connection with a specific loan or other credit transaction, to provide for satisfaction of a debt, in whole or in part, upon the death of an insured debtor;
(5) "Credit transaction" means any transaction by the terms of which the repayment of money loaned or loan commitment made or payment for goods, services or properties sold or leased is to be made at a future date or dates;
(6) "Creditor" means the lender of money or vendor or lessor of goods, services or property, rights or privileges for which payment is arranged through a credit transaction or any successor to the right, title or interest of any such lender, vendor or lessor and an affiliate, associate or subsidiary of any of them or any director, officer or employee of any of them or any other person in any way associated with any of them;
(7) "Debtor" means a borrower of money or a purchaser or lessee of goods, services, property, rights or privileges for which payment is arranged through a credit transaction;
(8) "Gross debt" means the sum of the remaining payments owed to the creditor by the debtor;
(9) "Identifiable charge" means a charge for a type of consumer credit insurance that is made to debtors having such insurance and not made to debtors not having such insurance; it includes a charge for insurance that is disclosed in the credit or other instrument furnished to the debtor which sets out the financial elements of the credit transaction and any difference in the finance, interest, service or other similar charge made to debtors who are in like circumstances except for the insured or noninsured status of the debtor or of the property used as security for the credit transaction; and
(10) "Open-end credit" means credit extended by a creditor under an agreement in which: