Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 431 > Article 10H - Long-Term Care Insurance

• Additional unemployment benefits: means the unemployment compensation benefits payable under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 385-2
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• 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.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Applicant: means :

  (1) In the case of an individual long-term care insurance policy, the person who seeks to contract for benefits; and

  (2) In the case of a group long-term care insurance policy, the proposed certificate holder. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10H-104

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Benefit year: refers to "benefit year" as that term is defined in section 383-1. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 385-2
• Board: means the fund's board of directors. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386A-1
• C corporation: means a corporation which is not an S corporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 235-121
• Certificate: means , for the purposes of this article, any certificate issued under a group long-term care insurance policy, which policy has been delivered or issued for delivery in this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10H-104
• Claimant: means an individual:

  (1) Who has an unexpired benefit year and has exhausted normal benefits;

  (2) Whose benefit year expired, or whose normal benefits were exhausted, within a period of twenty-six consecutive weeks immediately preceding the week in which the proclamation provided for in section 385-1 became effective;

  (3) Who was employed during the week in which the governor's proclamation pursuant to section 385-1 became effective, but who became unemployed and whose total earned wages are insufficient for normal benefits; or

  (4) Whose unemployment was proximately caused by the disaster identified by the governor in the proclamation provided for in section 385-1 and was self-employed during the week in which the disaster occurred. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 385-2

• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 385-2
• Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 381-1
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Employee: means any person employed by an employer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 382-1
• Employee: means any person, whether or not a member of a labor organization, in the employ of a public utility and whose duties pertain or relate to the public utility service in which the public utility is engaged. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 381-1
• Employer: means any person who employs the services of employees in the stevedoring industry, but shall not include the State or any agency thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 382-1
• 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}
• 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.
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Farming operation: includes but shall not be limited to:

  (1) Agricultural-based commercial operations as described in section [205-2(d)(15)];

  (2) Noises, odors, dust, and fumes emanating from a commercial agricultural or an aquacultural facility or pursuit;

  (3) Operation of machinery and irrigation pumps;

  (4) Ground and aerial seeding and spraying;

  (5) The application of chemical fertilizers, conditioners, insecticides, pesticides, and herbicides; and

  (6) The employment and use of labor. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 165-2

• federally tax-qualified long-term care insurance contract: means an individual or group insurance contract that meets the requirements of section 7702B (b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, as follows:

  (1) The only insurance protection provided under the contract is coverage of qualified long-term care services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10H-104

• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the additional unemployment compensation fund established by this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 385-2
• Fund: means the Hawaii state compensation mutual insurance fund. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386A-1
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Group long-term care insurance: means a long-term care insurance policy which is delivered or issued for delivery in this State and issued to:

  (1) One or more employers or labor organizations, or a trust or to the trustees of a fund established by one or more employers or labor organizations, or a combination thereof, for employees or former employees or a combination thereof or for members or former members or a combination thereof, of the labor organizations; or

  (2) Any professional, trade, or occupational association for its members or former or retired members, or combination thereof, if the association:

  (A) Is composed of individuals all of whom are or were actively engaged in the same profession, trade, or occupation; and

  (B) Has been maintained in good faith for purposes other than obtaining insurance; or

  (3) An association or a trust or the trustees of a fund established, created, or maintained for the benefit of members of one or more associations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10H-104

• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Internal Revenue Code: has the meaning set forth in section 235-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 235-121
• Internal Revenue Code: means subtitle A, chapter 1, of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of December 31, 2022, as it applies to the determination of gross income, adjusted gross income, ordinary income and loss, and taxable income, except those provisions of the Internal Revenue Code which, pursuant to this chapter, do not apply or are otherwise limited in application. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 235-2.3
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• labor dispute: includes any controversy concerning terms or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether or not the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 380-13
• Labor organization: means any organization of employees which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 382-1
• Labor organization: means any organization of employees which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 381-1
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lockout: means the refusal of a public utility to furnish work to employees as a result of a labor dispute. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 381-1
• Lockout: means the refusal of an employer to furnish work to employees as the result of a labor dispute between the employer and its employees. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 382-1
• Long-term care insurance: means any insurance policy or rider advertised, marketed, offered, or designed to provide coverage for not less than twelve consecutive months for each covered person on an expense incurred, indemnity, prepaid, or other basis, for one or more necessary or medically necessary diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, or personal care services, provided in a setting other than an acute care unit of a hospital. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10H-104
• month: means a calendar month; and the word "year" a calendar year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-20
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• NAIC: means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10H-104
• Normal benefits: means the unemployment compensation benefits payable pursuant to chapter 383. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 385-2
• Nuisance: as used in this chapter , includes all claims that meet the requirements of this definition regardless of whether a complainant designates such claims as brought in nuisance, negligence, trespass, or any other area of law or equity; provided that nuisance as used in this chapter does not include an alleged nuisance that involves water pollution or flooding. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 165-2
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• oath: includes a solemn affirmation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-21
• 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.
• Owner-employee: means a person who has performed services for an employing unit as defined in section 383-1, and who is or has been a shareholder owning twenty-five per cent or more of the corporation's common stock, and director or officer, or both, of a corporation which is or was the employing unit or who exercises a substantial degree of control over the direction of corporate activities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 385-2
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: includes one or more individuals, labor organizations, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, or receivers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 382-1
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Policy: means , for the purposes of this article, any policy, contract, subscriber agreement, rider, or endorsement delivered or issued for delivery in this State by an insurer; fraternal benefit society; nonprofit health, hospital, or medical service corporation; prepaid health plan; health maintenance organization; or any similar organization. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10H-104
• Post-termination transition period: means that period defined in section 1377(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 235-121
• Pro rata share: means the share determined with respect to an S corporation shareholder for a taxable period in the manner provided in section 1377(a)(1) or (2) or 1362(e)(2) or (3) or (6)(D), as the case may be, of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 235-121
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public utility: has the meaning given that term in § 269-1, excluding, however, the State or any county or any commission or board of the State or of any county, and any person subject to the Federal Railway Labor Act, as amended from time to time. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 381-1
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Related services: means and includes all services, other than stevedoring services, ordinarily or necessarily performed in regard to cargo, goods, wares, and merchandise of every kind arriving at a terminal facility for shipment by or discharge from vessels and other craft; and "related facilities" means and includes all facilities in connection therewith. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 382-1
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Representative: means any person or persons, labor organization, organization, or corporation designated either by a public utility or by employees to act for it or them. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 381-1
• S corporation: means a corporation for which a valid election under section 1362(a) of the Internal Revenue Code is in effect. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 235-121
• 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.
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Statutes at large: A chronological listing of the laws enacted each Congress. They are published in volumes numbered by Congress.
• Stevedoring industry: means the business of furnishing services for the loading and unloading of cargo transported or to be transported on vessels and other craft, at any ports within the State, and also means the business of furnishing related services, as herein defined. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 382-1
• Stevedoring services: means services for the loading and unloading of cargo transported or to be transported on vessels and other craft and the handling of lines of vessels and other craft, at any ports within the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 382-1
• Strike: means the temporary stoppage of work, slowdown, or retarding of production or operations by the concerted action of employees. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 382-1
• Strike: means the temporary stoppage of work, slowdown, or retarding of production or operations by the concerted action of two or more employees as a result of a labor dispute. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 381-1
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Taxable period: means any taxable year or portion of a taxable year during which a corporation is an S corporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 235-121
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Terminal facility: means any dock, wharf, pier, quay, bulkhead, or landing, with the appurtenances thereto, and any warehouse used in connection therewith. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 382-1
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Wages: means all remuneration for services from whatever source, including commissions and bonuses, remuneration from self-employment, tips or gratuities paid directly to an individual by a customer of the employer and reported to the employer for payroll tax deduction purposes, and the cash value of all remuneration in any medium other than cash. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 385-2
• Week: means any period of seven consecutive days as the director may by rule prescribe. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 385-2