In this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) "Consolidation" means any transaction in which a financial institution makes its premium collection services available to its mortgage debtors in connection with a particular insurer's offer of mortgage insurance, which offer is made to debtors who, immediately prior to the offer, had mortgage insurance and were paying premiums for that insurance with their monthly mortgage payments.
(2) "Financial institution" or "servicer" means any entity or organization that services mortgage loans by collecting and accounting for monthly mortgage payments.
(3) "Loan transfer" means a transaction in which the servicing of a block of mortgage loans is transferred from one servicer to another.
(4) "Loan transfer consolidation" means a consolidation involving debtors whose mortgage loans have been transferred from one servicer to another.
(5) "Mortgage" or "mortgage loan" means an indebtedness which is secured by real estate and which is not subject to the South Carolina Consumer Protection Code (Title 37 of the 1976 Code).
(6) "Mortgage insurance" means life, accidental death, or disability insurance, or any combination of these, designed to pay off all or a part of the mortgage loan in the event of the insured's death or disability.
(7) "New coverage" or "new plan" means the mortgage insurance coverage or mortgage insurance plan sponsored by the financial institution in connection with a consolidation.
(8) "Old coverage" or "old plan" means the mortgage insurance coverage or mortgage insurance plan the insured debtor had or participated in immediately prior to the consolidation.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 382, Section 2.
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