Delaware Administrative Code
Title 18 - Insurance
500 - Agents, Brokers, Solicitors, and Consultants
506 - Crop Insurance Adjusters and Producers
Section 506-3.0 - Definitions
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Delaware Insurance Department.
"Crop" means and includes any agricultural product, including livestock, nursery product, tree and product from a tree, as well as anything insured by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation under a crop insurance program.
"Crop insurance adjuster" means any person, who, for compensation or any other thing of value, does any of the following:
. Acts or aids in investigating, verifying, substantiating, estimating, appraising, determining, presenting, and discussing the value of the claim, and/or effectuating the resolution of a claim for loss or damage covered by an insurance contract that insures crops;
. Advertises for employment as an adjuster of claims arising under insurance contracts that insure crops or solicits business or represents to the public to be a crop insurance adjuster of insurance claims, for losses or damages arising out of policies of insurance that insure crops; or
. Directly or indirectly solicits business, investigates or adjusts losses, or advises an insured about claims for losses or damages arising out of policies of insurance that insure crops, when doing any of the foregoing for or on behalf of another person engaged in the business of adjusting losses or damages covered by an insurance policy that insures crops, for the insured.
"Department" means the Department of Insurance;
"NAIC" means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners;
"Person" means a natural person;
"Producer" means any person required to be licensed under the laws of this State to sell, solicit, or negotiate contracts of insurance authorized within the scope of said license.
"Risk Management Agency" means that agency of the United States Department of Agriculture acting on behalf of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to administer federal crop insurance programs.
