17B:37-2 Definitions relative to the "Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact."

2. For the purposes of this act:

"Advertisement" means any material designed to create public interest in an insurance product, or induce the public to purchase, increase, modify, reinstate, borrow on, surrender, replace or retain a policy, as more specifically defined in the rules and operating procedures of the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission established by section 3 of this act.

"Bylaws" mean those bylaws established by the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission for its governance, or for directing or controlling the commission's actions or conduct.

"Commission" means the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission established by section 3 of this act.

"Commissioner" means the chief insurance regulatory official of a state including, but not limited to the commissioner, superintendent, director or administrator.

"Compact" means the "Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact" established by this act.

"Compacting state" means any state which has enacted this or similar compact legislation and which has not withdrawn or been terminated pursuant to section 14 of this act.

"Domiciliary state" means the state in which an insurer is incorporated or organized; or, in the case of an alien insurer, its state of entry.

"Insurer" means any entity licensed by a state to issue contracts of insurance for any of the lines of insurance covered by this act.

"Member" means the person chosen by a compacting state as its representative to the commission, or his designee.

"Non-compacting state" means any state which is not a compacting state.

"Operating procedures" means procedures promulgated by the commission implementing a rule, uniform standard, or a provision of this act.

"Product" means the form of a policy or contract, including any application, endorsement, or related form which is attached to and made a part of the policy or contract, and any evidence of coverage or certificate, for an individual or group annuity, life insurance, disability income, or long-term care insurance product that an insurer is authorized to issue.

"Rule" means a statement of general or particular applicability and future effect promulgated by the commission, including a uniform standard developed pursuant to section 7 of this act, designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy, or describing the organization, procedure, or practice requirements of the commission, which shall have the force and effect of law in the compacting states.

"State" means any state, district, or territory of the United States of America.

"Third party filer" means an entity that submits a product filing to the commission on behalf of an insurer.

"Uniform standard" means a standard adopted by the commission for a product line, pursuant to section 7 of this act, and shall include all of the product requirements in aggregate; provided, that each uniform standard shall be construed, whether express or implied, to prohibit the use of any inconsistent, misleading, or ambiguous provisions in a product, and the form of the product made available to the public shall not be unfair, inequitable, or against public policy as determined by the commission.

L.2010, c.120, s.2.