Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 393 > Part II - Mandatory Coverage

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3
• Employer: means any individual or type of organization, including any partnership, association, trust, estate, joint stock company, insurance company, or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, a debtor in possession or receiver or trustee in bankruptcy, or the legal representative of a deceased person, who has one or more regular employees in the employer's employment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3
• Employment: means service, including service in interstate commerce, performed for wages under any contract of hire, written or oral, expressed or implied, with an employer, except as otherwise provided in §§ 393-4 and 393-5. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• month: means a calendar month; and the word "year" a calendar year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-20
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Premium: means the amount payable to a prepaid health care plan contractor as consideration for the contractor's obligations under a prepaid health care plan. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3
• Prepaid health care plan: means any agreement by which any prepaid health care plan contractor undertakes in consideration of a stipulated premium:

  (1) Either to furnish health care, including hospitalization, surgery, medical or nursing care, drugs or other restorative appliances, subject to, if at all, only a nominal per service charge; or

  (2) To defray or reimburse, in whole or in part, the expenses of health care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3

• Prepaid health care plan contractor: means :

  (1) Any medical group or organization which undertakes under a prepaid health care plan to provide health care;

  (2) Any nonprofit organization which undertakes under a prepaid health care plan to defray or reimburse in whole or in part the expenses of health care; or

  (3) Any insurer who undertakes under a prepaid health care plan to defray or reimburse in whole or in part the expenses of health care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3

• Regular employee: means a person employed in the employment of any one employer for at least twenty hours per week but does not include a person employed in seasonal employment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Wages: means all remuneration for services from whatever source, including commissions, bonuses, and tips and gratuities paid directly to any individual by a customer of the individual's employer, and the cash value of all remuneration in any medium other than cash. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3