Texas Insurance Code 422.003 – Definitions
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Terms Used In Texas Insurance Code 422.003
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- 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
- 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
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Property: means real and personal property. See Texas Government Code 311.005
In this chapter:
(1) “Asset” means any property in which an insurer owns a legal or equitable interest that is reported as an asset in the domestic insurer’s statutory financial statements most recently filed with the department.
(2) “Claimant” means an owner, beneficiary, assignee, certificate holder, or third-party beneficiary of an insurance benefit or right arising from the coverage of an insurance policy to which this chapter applies.
(3) “Reserve assets” means the assets of an insurer that are authorized investments for policy reserves under this code.
(4) “Policy reserve liabilities” means the liabilities that an insurer is required under this code to establish for all of the insurer’s outstanding insurance policies.