Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 333 > Act 255 of 2006 - Methamphetamine Laboratory

• Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102
• Director: means , unless the context clearly implies a different meaning, the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 500.102
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Insurer: means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, Lloyds organization, fraternal benefit society, or other legal entity, engaged or attempting to engage in the business of making insurance or surety contracts. See Michigan Laws 500.106
• Methamphetamine: means that substance as described in section 7214(c)(ii) of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.26371
• Methamphetamine laboratory: means the site where the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine has taken place, and includes all equipment and supplies used at that site for that purpose. See Michigan Laws 333.26371
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Rate: means the cost of insurance per payroll before adjustment for an individual insured's size, exposure, or loss experience. See Michigan Laws 500.2402
• Reinsurance intermediary: means a reinsurance intermediary-broker or a reinsurance intermediary-manager. See Michigan Laws 500.1151
• Reinsurance intermediary-broker: means any person, other than an officer or employee of the ceding insurer, who solicits, negotiates, or places reinsurance cessions or retrocessions on behalf of a ceding insurer without the authority or power to bind reinsurance on behalf of that insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.1151
• Reinsurance intermediary-manager: means any person who has authority to bind or manages all or part of the assumed reinsurance business of a reinsurer, including the management of a separate division, department, or underwriting office, and acts as an agent for the reinsurer whether known as a reinsurance intermediary-manager, manager, or other similar term. See Michigan Laws 500.1151
• Reinsurer: means any person duly authorized in this state pursuant to the applicable provisions of this act as an insurer with the authority to assume reinsurance. See Michigan Laws 500.1151
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.