West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 114 - Insurance Commission › Title 114 - LEGISLATIVE RULE INSURANCE COMMISSIONER › Series 114-65 - Self-Insurance Pools For Political Subdivisions › Section 114-65-2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
2.1. "Administrator"
				means the individual, partnership corporation or other entity authorized to serve as
				a representative of a pool and its members in carrying out the policies of the board
				of directors and managing the pool's activities.
2.2. "Board" means the board of directors of a
				pool.
2.3. "Commissioner" means the West
				Virginia Insurance Commissioner.
2.4.
				"Contribution" means the amount of payments required of each member in order to fund
				the pool's obligations under the plan.
2.5. "Civil Liability" means an obligation arising
				from claims for damages in civil actions for injury, death, or loss to persons or
				property allegedly cause by an act or omission of the political subdivision or any
				of its employees.
2.6. "Member" means a
				political subdivision which has entered into a member agreement and thereby becomes
				a pool member.
2.7. "Member agreement"
				means the written agreement executed between each member and the pool which sets
				forth the conditions of membership in the pool, the obligations, if any, of each
				member to the other members and the terms, coverages, limits, and deductibles of the
				plan.
2.8. "Plan" means the plan of
				self-insurance for coverage of civil liability and workers' compensation risks
				offered by the pool to its members as specifically designated in the member
				agreement.
2.9. "Political subdivision"
				means any county commission, municipality and county board of education; any
				separate corporation or instrumentality established by one or more counties or
				municipalities, as permitted by law; any instrumentality supported in most part by
				municipalities; any public body charged by law with the performance of a government
				function and whose jurisdiction is coextensive with one or more counties cities or
				towns; a combined city-county health department created pursuant to article two,
				chapter sixteen of the West Virginia Code; public service districts; and other
				instrumentalities including, but not limited to, volunteer fire departments and
				emergency service organizations as recognized by an appropriate public body and
				authorized by law to perform a government function. "Political subdivision" does not
				include hospitals of a political subdivision and their employees.
2.10. "Pool" means a self-insurance program
				organized by two or more political subdivisions for the purpose of providing joint
				or cooperative action relating to their financial and administrative resources and
				providing risk management and coverage for civil liability, worker's compensation
				liability, or both, for pool members and their employees. Workers' compensation
				funds must be accounted for independently of any other funds of a pool.
2.11. "Workers' compensation risk" means an
				employer's liability for payment of benefits to injured workers and their dependents
				under the provisions of chapter twenty-three of the West Virginia
				Code.