Legislation
SECTION 5501
Definitions
Insurance (ISC) CHAPTER 28, ARTICLE 55
§ 5501. Definitions. In this article:
(a) "Association" means the medical malpractice insurance association.
(b) "Medical malpractice insurance" means insurance against legal
liability of the insured, and against loss, damage, or expense incident
to a claim of such liability arising out of the death or injury of any
person due to medical, dental, podiatric, certified nurse-midwifery or
hospital malpractice by any licensed physician, dentist, podiatrist,
certified nurse-midwife, certified registered nurse anesthetist or
hospital.
(c) "Hospital" means:
(1) Any facility defined as a hospital under section twenty-eight
hundred one of the public health law and issued an operating certificate
as a hospital or nursing home, and those distinct parts of a facility
which are subject to the powers of visitation, examination, inspection
and investigation of the department of mental hygiene which provide
hospital or nursing home service.
(2) Any ambulance service which is registered or certified under
article thirty of the public health law and which is designed and
equipped to provide definitive acute medical care pursuant to rules and
regulations of the commissioner of health in accordance with such
article concerning the requirements for an advanced life support system.
Such a service must include, but not be limited to, the provision of
advanced life support services.
(3) Any community mental health center operated by a county, city,
town or village, holding an operating certificate issued by an office of
the department of mental hygiene.
(4) Any certified public or voluntary non-profit home care service
agency which possesses a valid certificate of approval issued under
article twenty-eight or thirty-six of the public health law.
(d) "Net direct premiums" means gross direct premiums written on
personal injury liability insurance, including the liability component
of multiple peril package policies as computed by the superintendent,
less return premiums for the unused or unabsorbed portions of premium
deposits.
(e) "Personal injury liability insurance" means all forms of insurance
written under paragraph thirteen of subsection (a) of section one
thousand one hundred thirteen of this chapter, including the liability
component of multiple peril package policies.
(a) "Association" means the medical malpractice insurance association.
(b) "Medical malpractice insurance" means insurance against legal
liability of the insured, and against loss, damage, or expense incident
to a claim of such liability arising out of the death or injury of any
person due to medical, dental, podiatric, certified nurse-midwifery or
hospital malpractice by any licensed physician, dentist, podiatrist,
certified nurse-midwife, certified registered nurse anesthetist or
hospital.
(c) "Hospital" means:
(1) Any facility defined as a hospital under section twenty-eight
hundred one of the public health law and issued an operating certificate
as a hospital or nursing home, and those distinct parts of a facility
which are subject to the powers of visitation, examination, inspection
and investigation of the department of mental hygiene which provide
hospital or nursing home service.
(2) Any ambulance service which is registered or certified under
article thirty of the public health law and which is designed and
equipped to provide definitive acute medical care pursuant to rules and
regulations of the commissioner of health in accordance with such
article concerning the requirements for an advanced life support system.
Such a service must include, but not be limited to, the provision of
advanced life support services.
(3) Any community mental health center operated by a county, city,
town or village, holding an operating certificate issued by an office of
the department of mental hygiene.
(4) Any certified public or voluntary non-profit home care service
agency which possesses a valid certificate of approval issued under
article twenty-eight or thirty-six of the public health law.
(d) "Net direct premiums" means gross direct premiums written on
personal injury liability insurance, including the liability component
of multiple peril package policies as computed by the superintendent,
less return premiums for the unused or unabsorbed portions of premium
deposits.
(e) "Personal injury liability insurance" means all forms of insurance
written under paragraph thirteen of subsection (a) of section one
thousand one hundred thirteen of this chapter, including the liability
component of multiple peril package policies.