Kansas Statutes > Chapter 40 > Article 16 – Reciprocal or Interinsurance Contracts
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- 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.
- Armed Forces Cooperative Insuring Association: means the association organized as an unincorporated cooperative association operating within the federal enclave of Ft. See Kansas Statutes 40-1615
- Armed Forces Insurance Corporation: means the attorney-in-fact for Armed Forces Insurance Exchange, incorporated under the laws of the state of Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 40-1615
- Armed Forces Insurance Exchange: means the unincorporated reciprocal exchange operating in Leavenworth, Kansas, under the laws of the state of Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 40-1615
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
- Attorney-in-fact: means the person designated and authorized by subscribers as having authority to obligate them on reciprocal insurance contracts. See Kansas Statutes 40-1623
- Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance. See Kansas Statutes 40-1623
- 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.
- Insurance entity: means the Armed Forces Cooperative Insuring Association or Armed Forces Insurance Exchange, or both. See Kansas Statutes 40-1615
- Merger: means the union of two or more insurance entities into a single insurance entity which is one of the insurance entities uniting. See Kansas Statutes 40-1615
- Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
- Oath: includes an affirmation in all cases where an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in similar cases "swear" includes affirm. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- 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: means any association, aggregate of individuals, business, company, corporation, individual, joint-stock company, Lloyds-type of organization, organization, cooperative, partnership, receiver, trustee or society, with power to enter into contractual undertakings within or without the state. See Kansas Statutes 40-1623
- Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
- Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
- Reciprocal: means an aggregation of subscribers under a common name. See Kansas Statutes 40-1623
- Reciprocal insurance: means insurance resulting from the mutual exchange of insurance contracts among persons in an unincorporated association under a common name through an attorney-in-fact having authority to obligate each person both as insured and insurer. See Kansas Statutes 40-1623
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- Subscriber: means a person obligated under a reciprocal insurance agreement. See Kansas Statutes 40-1623
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.