17:29A-1. Definitions

1. As used in this act,

(a) "Rate" means the unit charge by which the measure of exposure or the amount of insurance specified in a policy of insurance or covered thereunder is multiplied to determine the premium.

(b) "Premium" means the consideration paid or to be paid to an insurer for the issuance and delivery of any binder or policy of insurance.

(c) "Rate-making" means the examination and analysis of factors and influences related to and bearing upon the hazard and risk made the subject of insurance; the collection and collation of such factors and influences into rating-systems; and the application of such rating-systems to individual risks.

(d) "Rating-system" means every schedule, class, classification, rule, guide, standard, manual, table, rating plan, or compilation, by whatever name described, containing the rates used by any rating organization or by any insurer, or used by any insurer or by any rating organization in determining or ascertaining a rate and includes any policy form, or part thereof, used therewith.

(e) "Policy of insurance," without otherwise limiting its meaning, shall include guaranty and surety bonds.

(f) "Rating organization" means every person or persons, corporation, partnership, company, society, or association engaged in the business of rate-making for two or more insurers.

(g) "Insurer" means any person or persons, corporation, association, partnership or company authorized by the laws of this State to transact the business of insurance in this State.

(h) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Insurance of New Jersey.

(i) "Risk," as the context may require, means, (1) as to fire insurance or any other kind of insurance which, by law, may be embraced in a policy of fire insurance, as part thereof or as supplemental thereto, any property, real or personal, described in a policy, exposed to any hazard or peril named in such policy; and (2) as to all other kinds of insurance not specifically included in subsection (i)(1) of this section, the hazard or peril named in a policy of insurance.

(j) "Filer" means a rating organization or any insurer making its own rates.

(k) "Commission" means the commission paid by the insurer to the producer or, for those insurers whose sales compensation, as reported on the insurer's expense exhibits, is not classified as a commission, such compensation shall be treated as a commission.

L.1944,c.27,s.1; amended 1983,c.65,s.3; 1983,c.301,s.1; 1994,c.188,s.3.