§ 27-66-4. Definitions. For purposes of this chapter:

(1) "Acquiree" means the person or persons which lose(s) any ownership or control in a health insurance corporation, health maintenance organization, non-profit hospital service corporations and non-profit medical service corporations;

(2) "Acquiror" means the person or persons which gain(s) an ownership or control in a health insurance corporation, health maintenance organization, non-profit hospital service corporation and non-profit medical service corporation;

(3) "Conversion" means any transfer by a person or persons of an ownership or membership interest or authority in a health insurance corporation, health maintenance organization, non-profit hospital service corporation or non-profit medical service corporation or the assets of these corporations, whether by purchase, merger, consolidation, lease, gift, joint venture, sale, or other disposition which results in a change of ownership or control or possession of twenty percent (20%) or greater of the members or voting rights or interests of the health insurance corporation, health maintenance organization, non-profit hospital service corporation or non-profit medical service corporation or of the assets of the health insurance corporation, health maintenance organization, non-profit hospital service corporation or non-profit medical service corporation or pursuant to which, by virtue of the transfer, a person, together with all persons affiliated with that person, holds or owns, in the aggregate, twenty percent (20%) or greater of the membership or voting rights or interests of the health insurance corporations, health maintenance organization, non-profit hospital service corporation or non-profit medical service corporation or of the assets of the health insurance organization, health maintenance organization, non-profit hospital service corporation or non-profit medical service corporation or the removal, addition or substitution of a partner which results in a new partner gaining or acquiring a controlling interest in the health insurance organization, health maintenance organization, non-profit hospital service corporation or non-profit medical service corporation or any change in membership which results in a new person gaining or acquiring a controlling vote in the health insurance corporation, health maintenance organization non-profit hospital service corporation, or non-profit medical service corporation;

(4) "Department" means the department of business regulation;

(5) "Director" means the director of the department of business regulation;

(6) "Existing health insurance corporation, health maintenance organization, non-profit hospital service corporation or non-profit medical service corporation" means the health insurance corporation, health maintenance organization, non-profit hospital service corporation or non-profit medical service corporation as it exists prior to the acquisition;

(7) "For profit corporation" means a legal entity formed for the purpose of transacting business which has as any one of its purposes pecuniary profit;

(8) "Health insurance corporation" means any insurance company subject to chapter 1 of this title of the general laws that offers health insurance in Rhode Island except that "health insurance corporation" shall not include companies whose health insurance policies only cover one or more of the following: disability income, long term care, legal services, hospital confinement indemnity, specified disease indemnity, sickness or bodily injury by accident or other limited health benefits.

(9) "Mutual insurance company" means a corporation in which shares are held exclusively by members to whom profits are distributed as dividends and members are both the insurer and the insured.

(10) "New health insurance corporations, health maintenance organization, non-profit hospital service corporation or non-profit medical service corporation" means the health insurance corporations, health maintenance organization, non-profit hospital service corporation or non-profit medical service corporation as it exists after the completion of a conversion;

(11) "Not-for-profit corporation" means a corporation subject to chapter 6 of title 7, including any corporation organized under special provisions of the general laws or under a private act which is declared to be a "charitable corporation".

(12) "Person" means any individual, trust or estate, partnership, joint venture, corporation, whether for profit or not for profit, (including associations, mutual insurance companies, joint stock companies and insurance companies);

(13) "Subscriber" means those persons or groups of persons who shall contract with a health insurance corporation, health maintenance organization, nonprofit hospital service corporation or nonprofit medical service corporation for health insurance.

(14) "Transacting parties" means any person or persons who seeks either to transfer or acquire ownership or a controlling interest or controlling authority in a health insurance corporation, health maintenance organization, non-profit hospital service corporation or non-profit medical service corporation which would result in a change of ownership, control or authority of twenty percent (20%) or greater.

History of Section. (P.L. 1999, ch. 215, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 376, § 1.)