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Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-7-20

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Insurance: means a contract of insurance or an agreement by which one (1) party, for a consideration, promises to pay money or its equivalent or to do an act valuable to the insured upon the destruction, loss or injury of something in which the other party has a pecuniary interest, or in consideration of a price paid, adequate to the risk, becomes security to the other against loss by certain specified risks; to grant indemnity or security against loss for a consideration. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
   Sec. 20. Any public or private corporation, board or association in this state or elsewhere may make applications, enter into agreements for, and hold policies in, any mutual insurance company. Any officer, stockholder, trustee or legal representative of any such company, board, association, or estate may be recognized as acting for or on its behalf for the purposes of such membership, but shall not be personally liable upon such contract of insurance by reason of acting in such representative capacity.

Formerly: Acts 1935, c.162, s.97a.