New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 11 - INSURANCE
Chapter 1 - ADMINISTRATION
Subchapter 2A - PERSONAL LINES FILINGS: RATE FILING REVIEW PROCEDURES
Section 11:1-2A.2 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance.
"Contested case" means any proceeding so defined in N.J.S.A. 52:14B-2, specifically including a personal lines prior approval rate filing when a request for a hearing has been made by any party or when the Commissioner determines that a hearing on the filing is necessary.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance.
"Division of Rate Counsel" means the division which pursuant to P.L. 2010, c. 34 (N.J.S.A. 52:27EE-46 et seq., as amended) is in, but independent of, the Department of the Treasury of New Jersey.
"Filer" means a rating organization or any insurer making its own rates or a portion thereof, establishing or proposing to establish a new rate or rate change.
"Parties" means the filer and any other person with a legal right to participate in the proceedings, who has served notice on the Commissioner of an intention to participate therein.
"Personal lines rate filing" means a filing by a rating organization or an insurer for insurance issued for personal, family or household purposes, as set forth at 11:13-1.2(a)2. For the purposes of this subchapter, a "personal lines rate filing" does not include private passenger automobile insurance.
"Rating organization" means every person or persons, corporation, partnership, company, society, or association engaged in the business of making rates or a portion thereof for two or more insurers and licensed in accordance with 17:29A-2.
