Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 56 > Chapter 8 > Part 2 - Domestic Violence Victims Health Insurance Protection Act

• Abuse: means the occurrence of one (1) or more of the following acts:
  (A) Attempting to cause or intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causing another person, including a minor child, bodily injury, physical harm, severe emotional distress, psychological trauma, rape, sexual assault or involuntary sexual intercourse. See Tennessee Code 56-8-202
• Abuse status: means the fact or perception that a person is, has been, or may be a subject of abuse, regardless of whether the person has sustained abuse-related medical conditions or has incurred abuse-related claims. See Tennessee Code 56-8-202
• Abuse-related medical condition: means a medical condition sustained by a subject of abuse that arises in whole or part out of an act or pattern of abuse. See Tennessee Code 56-8-202
• 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.
• 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}
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-1-102
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Health benefit plan: includes accident only, credit health, dental, vision, medicare supplement, or long-term care coverage issued as a supplement to liability insurance, automobile medical payment insurance, short-term and catastrophic health insurance policies, and a policy that pays on a cost-incurred basis. See Tennessee Code 56-8-202
• Health carrier: means an entity subject to the insurance laws and regulations of this state, or subject to the jurisdiction of the commissioner, that contracts or offers to contract to provide, deliver, arrange for, pay for or reimburse any of the cost of health care services, including a sickness and accident insurance company, a health maintenance organization, a nonprofit hospital and health service corporation, or any other entity providing a plan of health insurance, health benefits or health services. See Tennessee Code 56-8-202
• insured: includes a person who is a beneficiary covered by a group policy, certificate, or health benefit plan. See Tennessee Code 56-8-202
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Person: means any association, aggregate of individuals, business, company, corporation, individual, joint-stock company, Lloyds-type organization, organization, partnership, receiver, reciprocal or interinsurance exchange, trustee or society. See Tennessee Code 56-16-102
• plan: means a policy, contract, certificate or agreement offered by a carrier to provide, deliver, arrange for, pay for or reimburse any of the costs of health care services. See Tennessee Code 56-8-202
• Policy: means a contract of insurance, certificate, indemnity, suretyship, or annuity issued, proposed for issuance, or intended for issuance by an insurer, including endorsements or riders to an insurance policy or contract. See Tennessee Code 56-8-202
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• sex: means a person's immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth and evidence of a person's biological sex. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Subject of abuse: means a person to whom a family member, or a current or former household member, intimate partner, or caretaker, or a perpetrator of sexual assault, a stalker or a sex offender has directed an act as defined in subdivision (1). See Tennessee Code 56-8-202
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105