This part applies to protect resident policyowners and insureds under all types of direct insurance, except:

(1) life insurance;

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Terms Used In Utah Code 31A-28-202

  • Affiliate: is a s defined in Section 31A-1-301. See Utah Code 31A-28-203
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Credit insurance: includes :
              (37)(b)(i) credit accident and health insurance;
              (37)(b)(ii) credit life insurance;
              (37)(b)(iii) credit property insurance;
              (37)(b)(iv) credit unemployment insurance;
              (37)(b)(v) guaranteed automobile protection insurance;
              (37)(b)(vi) involuntary unemployment insurance;
              (37)(b)(vii) mortgage accident and health insurance;
              (37)(b)(viii) mortgage guaranty insurance; and
              (37)(b)(ix) mortgage life insurance. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Creditor: means a person, including an insured, having a claim, whether:
         (39)(a) matured;
         (39)(b) unmatured;
         (39)(c) liquidated;
         (39)(d) unliquidated;
         (39)(e) secured;
         (39)(f) unsecured;
         (39)(g) absolute;
         (39)(h) fixed; or
         (39)(i) contingent. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Disability: means a physiological or psychological condition that partially or totally limits an individual's ability to:
         (51)(a) perform the duties of:
              (51)(a)(i) that individual's occupation; or
              (51)(a)(ii) an occupation for which the individual is reasonably suited by education, training, or experience; or
         (51)(b) perform two or more of the following basic activities of daily living:
              (51)(b)(i) eating;
              (51)(b)(ii) toileting;
              (51)(b)(iii) transferring;
              (51)(b)(iv) bathing; or
              (51)(b)(v) dressing. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • health insurance: means insurance providing:
              (84)(a)(i) a health care benefit; or
              (84)(a)(ii) payment of an incurred health care expense. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • 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
  • Life insurance: means :
              (114)(a)(i) insurance on a human life; and
              (114)(a)(ii) insurance pertaining to or connected with human life. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Ocean marine insurance: means insurance against loss of or damage to:
         (138)(a) ships or hulls of ships;
         (138)(b) goods, freight, cargoes, merchandise, effects, disbursements, profits, money, securities, choses in action, evidences of debt, valuable papers, bottomry, respondentia interests, or other cargoes in or awaiting transit over the oceans or inland waterways;
         (138)(c) earnings such as freight, passage money, commissions, or profits derived from transporting goods or people upon or across the oceans or inland waterways; or
         (138)(d) a vessel owner or operator as a result of liability to employees, passengers, bailors, owners of other vessels, owners of fixed objects, customs or other authorities, or other persons in connection with maritime activity. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Person: includes :
         (146)(a) an individual;
         (146)(b) a partnership;
         (146)(c) a corporation;
         (146)(d) an incorporated or unincorporated association;
         (146)(e) a joint stock company;
         (146)(f) a trust;
         (146)(g) a limited liability company;
         (146)(h) a reciprocal;
         (146)(i) a syndicate; or
         (146)(j) another similar entity or combination of entities acting in concert. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Title insurance: means the insuring, guaranteeing, or indemnifying of an owner of real or personal property or the holder of liens or encumbrances on that property, or others interested in the property against loss or damage suffered by reason of liens or encumbrances upon, defects in, or the unmarketability of the title to the property, or invalidity or unenforceability of any liens or encumbrances on the property. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
(2) annuity;
(3) health insurance;
(4) disability insurance;
(5) mortgage guaranty insurance;
(6) financial guaranty, or other forms of insurance offering protection against investment risks;
(7) fidelity or surety bonds, or any other bonding obligation;
(8) credit insurance;
(9) vendor’s single interest insurance;
(10) collateral protection insurance, or any similar insurance protecting the interests of a creditor in a creditor-debtor transaction;
(11) mechanical breakdown insurance, as defined in Section 31A-6a-101;
(12) insurance of a warranty or service contract as defined in Section 31A-6a-101;
(13) title insurance;
(14) ocean marine insurance;
(15) any transaction between a person and an insurer, or an affiliate of a person or insurer, that involves the transfer of investment or credit risk unaccompanied by transfer of insurance risk; or
(16) any insurance provided by or guaranteed by government.