§ 27-2.4-2. Definitions.
For purposes of this chapter:
(1) "Business entity� means a corporation, association, partnership, limited liability
company, limited liability partnership, or other legal entity.
(2) "Department� means the department of business regulation.
(3) "Home state� means any state or territory of the United States, or the District of
Columbia, in which an insurance producer maintains their principal place of residence
or principal place of business and is licensed to act as an insurance producer.
(4) "Insurance� means any of the lines of authority set forth in this title.
(5) "Insurance commissioner� means the director of the department of business regulation
or the director's designee.
(6) "Insurance producer� means a person required to be licensed under the laws of this
state to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance.
(7) "Insurer� means: (i) Any person, reciprocal exchange, interinsurer, Lloyds insurer,
fraternal benefit society, and any other legal entity engaged in the business of insurance,
including insurance producers; (ii) Notwithstanding §§ 27-19-2, 27-20-2, 27-20.1-2, 27-20.2-2, 27-20.3-2, and 27-41-22, all of whom shall be engaged in the business of insurance for the purpose of this
chapter, a nonprofit hospital and/or medical service corporation, a nonprofit dental
service corporation, a nonprofit optometric service corporation, a nonprofit legal
service corporation, a health maintenance organization as defined in chapter 41 of
this title or as defined in chapter 62 of title 42, or any other entity providing a plan of health benefits subject to state insurance
regulation; and (iii) An organization that for consideration assumes certain risks
for an insured. Insurer organizations may include corporations, stock companies, mutual
companies, risk retention groups, reciprocals, captives, Lloyds associations, and
government residual plans.
(8) "License� means a document issued by this state's insurance commissioner authorizing
a person to act as an insurance producer for the lines of authority specified in the
document. The license itself does not create any authority, actual, apparent, or inherent,
in the holder to represent or commit an insurance carrier.
(9) "Limited line credit insurance� includes credit life, credit disability, credit property,
credit unemployment, involuntary unemployment, mortgage life, mortgage guaranty, mortgage
disability, guaranteed automobile protection (gap) insurance, and any other form of
insurance offered in connection with an extension of credit that is limited to partially
or wholly extinguishing that credit obligation that the insurance commissioner determines
should be designated a form of limited line credit insurance.
(10) "Limited line credit insurance producer� means a person who sells, solicits, or negotiates
one or more forms of limited line credit insurance coverage to individuals through
a master, corporate, group, or individual policy.
(11) "Limited lines insurance� means those lines of insurance that the insurance commissioner
deems necessary to recognize for purposes of complying with §â€‰ 27-2.4-10(e).
(12) "Limited lines producer� means a person authorized by the insurance commissioner to
sell, solicit, or negotiate limited lines insurance.
(13) "NAIC� means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
(14) "Negotiate� means the act of conferring directly with or offering advice directly
to a purchaser or prospective purchaser of a particular contract of insurance concerning
any of the substantive benefits, terms, or conditions of the contract, provided that
the person engaged in that act either sells insurance or obtains insurance from insurers
for purchasers.
(15) "Person� means an individual.
(16) "Resident� means a person who either resides in Rhode Island or maintains an office
in Rhode Island where the business of producing insurance is transacted and designates
Rhode Island as the residence for purposes of licensure.
(17) "Sell� means to exchange a contract of insurance by any means, for money or its equivalent,
on behalf of an insurance company.
(18) "Solicit� means attempting to sell insurance or asking or urging a person to apply
for a particular kind of insurance from a particular company.
(19) "Terminate� means the cancellation of the relationship between an insurance producer
and the insurer or the termination of an insurance producer's authority to transact
insurance.
(20) "Uniform application� means the current version of the NAIC uniform application for
resident and nonresident insurance producer licensing.