Sec. 2. As used in this chapter and unless a different meaning appears from the context:

     (a) “Department” means the department of insurance of this state.

     (b) “Worker’s compensation board” means the worker’s compensation board of Indiana.

     (c) “Company” means an insurance company and includes all persons, partnerships, corporations, or associations engaged in making worker’s compensation insurance under the laws of this state.

     (d) “Domestic company” means a company organized under the laws of this state.

     (e) “Foreign company” means a company organized under the laws of any state of the United States, other than this state or under the laws of any territory or insular possession of the United States or the District of Columbia.

     (f) “Alien company” means a company organized under the laws of any country other than the United States or a territory or insular possession thereof or of the District of Columbia.

     (g) “Person” includes individuals, corporations, firms, companies, associations, and partnerships. The personal pronoun includes all genders. The singular includes the plural, and the plural includes the singular.

     (h) “Commissioner” means the insurance commissioner of this state.

     (i) “Bureau” means the worker’s compensation rating bureau of Indiana.

     (j) “Interested person” means any person who has filed with the department a request to be notified under sections 4(b) and 20.2(c) of this chapter of each filing of rates by the bureau or a company.

     (k) “Assigned risk plan” means the plan by which members of the worker’s compensation rating bureau provide for the insurance of rejected risks.

     (l) “Classification system” or “classification” means the plan, system, or arrangement for recognizing differences in exposure to hazards among industries, occupations, or operations of insurance policyholders.

     (m) “Experience rating” means a rating procedure utilizing past insurance experience of the individual policyholder to forecast future losses by measuring the policyholder’s loss experience against the loss experience of policyholders in the same classification to produce a prospective premium credit, debit, or unity modification.

     (n) “Rate” means the cost of insurance per exposure base unit, prior to any application of individual risk variations based on loss or expense considerations, and does not include minimum premiums.

     (o) “Schedule rating plan” means an independent rating plan that measures hazard differences that have an immediate bearing on the probability or severity of loss and applies debits and credits to modify the premium for a risk.

     (p) “Statistical plan” means the plan, system, or arrangement used in collecting data.

     (q) “Supplementary rate information” means any manual or plan of rates, classification system, rating schedule, minimum premium, rating rule, rating plan, and any other similar information needed to determine the applicable premium for an insured.

     (r) “Supporting information” means the experience and judgment of the filer and the experience or data of other companies or organizations relied on by the filer, the interpretation of any statistical data relied on by the filer, descriptions of methods used in making the rates, and any other similar information required to be filed by the commissioner.

Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.2; Acts 1959, c.231, s.2. As amended by P.L.252-1985, SEC.228; P.L.28-1988, SEC.87; P.L.249-1989, SEC.3.