Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 36 - Department of Military Affairs

• Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• advisory organization: is a ny entity, including its affiliates or subsidiaries, which either has two (2) or more member insurers or is controlled either directly or indirectly by two (2) or more insurers and which assists insurers in ratemaking related activities. See Kentucky Statutes 304.13-011
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• agent: includes managing general agent unless the context requires otherwise. See Kentucky Statutes 304.9-085
• 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.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• 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}
• classification: means the process of grouping risks with similar risk characteristics so that differences in cost may be recognized. See Kentucky Statutes 304.13-011
• Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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.
• Corporation: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Directors: when applied to corporations, includes managers or trustees. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Domestic: when applied to a corporation, partnership, business trust, or limited liability company, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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}
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• 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. See Kentucky Statutes 304.13-011
• Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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.
• Foreign: when applied to a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, business trust, statutory trust, or limited liability company, includes all those incorporated or formed by authority of any other state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Form provider: means a person who prepares, files, and distributes policy contract forms and endorsements and consults with members, subscribers, customers, or others relative to their use and application, but is not an advisory organization as defined in this subtitle. See Kentucky Statutes 304.13-011
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Joint underwriting: is a voluntary arrangement established to provide insurance coverage for a risk pursuant to which two (2) or more insurers jointly contract with the insured at a price and under policy terms agreed on between the insurers. See Kentucky Statutes 304.13-011
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Loss adjustment expenses: means the expenses incurred by the insurer in the course of settling claims. See Kentucky Statutes 304.13-011
• Month: means calendar month. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Prospective loss costs: means that portion of a rate that does not include provisions for expenses (other than loss adjustment expenses) or profit, and are based on historical aggregate losses or output from simulation models and loss adjustment expenses adjusted through development to their ultimate value and projected through trending to a future point in time. See Kentucky Statutes 304.13-011
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Rate: means the expected value of the future cost of insurance per exposure unit which accounts for the treatment of losses, expenses, and profit prior to any application of individual risk variations based on loss or expense considerations, but does not include minimum premium. See Kentucky Statutes 304.13-011
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• residual market mechanism: is a n agreement, either voluntary or mandated by law, involving participation by insurers in the equitable apportionment among them of insurance that may be afforded applicants who are unable to obtain insurance through ordinary methods. See Kentucky Statutes 304.13-011
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Statistical agent: means an entity that has been licensed by the commissioner to collect statistics from insurers and provide reports developed from these statistics to the commissioner for the purpose of fulfilling the statistical reporting obligations of those insurers under this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 304.13-011
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Supplementary rating information: includes any manual or plan of rates, classification, rating schedule, minimum premium, policy fees, rating rules, or any other similar information needed to determine the applicable rate or premium. See Kentucky Statutes 304.13-011
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010