§ 26-33-101 — Definitions

(a) As used in this chapter:
(i) "Account" means the medical liability
compensation account;
(ii) "Board" means the board of directors of the
medical liability compensation account;
(iii) "Health care" means any act or treatment
performed or furnished, or which should have been performed or
furnished, by any physician for, to, or on behalf of a patient
during the patient's medical care, treatment or confinement;
(iv) "Insurer" means an authority or an insurance
company engaged in writing malpractice liability insurance in
this state in accordance with this code;
(v) "Malpractice" means the rendering of or failure
to render professional medical services as a result of which the
patient has a cause of action against a licensed physician for
monetary damages;
(vi) "Physician" means a person licensed by the state
board of medicine to provide health care or professional
services as a physician.