The purposes of this chapter include:

(1) promoting the professional competence of insurance producers, surplus lines producers, limited line producers, consultants, managing general agents, and reinsurance intermediaries;

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Terms Used In Utah Code 31A-23a-101

  • Insurance: includes :
              (96)(b)(i) a risk distributing arrangement providing for compensation or replacement for damages or loss through the provision of a service or a benefit in kind;
              (96)(b)(ii) a contract of guaranty or suretyship entered into by the guarantor or surety as a business and not as merely incidental to a business transaction; and
              (96)(b)(iii) a plan in which the risk does not rest upon the person who makes an arrangement, but with a class of persons who have agreed to share the risk. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Reinsurance: means an insurance transaction where an insurer, for consideration, transfers any portion of the risk it has assumed to another insurer. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Surplus: means the excess of assets over the sum of paid-in capital and liabilities. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
(2) providing maximum freedom of marketing methods for insurance, consistent with the interests of the Utah public;
(3) preserving and encouraging competition at the consumer level;
(4) regulating insurance marketing practices in conformity with the general purposes of this title;
(5) governing the qualifications and procedures for the licensing of insurance producers, surplus lines producers, limited line producers, consultants, managing general agents, and reinsurance intermediaries; and
(6) promoting uniform licensing requirements between the several states.