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nt of financial condition. NRS 681A.490 Managers: Transactions with reinsurer; termination; duties. NRS 681A.500 Managers: Compliance with certain standards established by insurer; required provisions in contract; relationship with reinsurer. NRS 681A.510 Managers: Requirements for settlement of claims; ownership of claims files; termination of authority to settle claims. NRS 681A.520 Managers: Sharing of interim profits. NRS 681A.530 Managers: Maintenance of records of transactions; access to accounts and records by reinsurer. NRS 681A.540 Managers: Prohibited acts. NRS 681A.550 Managers: Conditions for employment; annual statement of financial condition; reserves for losses; retrocessional contracts; notice of termination; prohibition against serving on board of directors of reinsurer. NRS 681A.560 Examination of intermediary by Commissioner. NRS 681A.570 Actions that may be taken against intermediary who fails to comply with laws. NRS 681A.580 Rights of relevant parties not limited or expanded. _________ GENERAL PROVISIONS NRS 681A.010 Definitions not mutually exclusive. 1. As used in this Code, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 681A.020 to 681A.080, inclusive, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in NRS 681A.020 to 681A.080, inclusive. 2. It is intended that certain insurance coverages may come within the definitions of two or more kinds of insurance as defined in this chapter, and the inclusion of such coverage within one definition shall not exclude it as to any other kind of insurance within the definition of which such coverage is likewise reasonably includable. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1601) NRS 681A.020 “Casualty insurance” defined. 1. “Casualty insurance” includes: (a) Vehicle insurance. Insurance against loss of or damage to any land vehicle or aircraft or any draft or riding animal or to property while contained therein or thereon or being loaded or unloaded therein or therefrom, from any hazard or cause, and against any loss, liability or expense resulting from or incidental to ownership, maintenance or use of any such vehicle, aircraft or animal, together with insurance against accidental injury to natural persons, irrespective of legal liability of the insured, including the named insured, while in, entering, alighting from, adjusting, repairing, cranking, or caused by being struck by a vehicle, aircraft or draft or riding animal, if such insurance is issued as an incidental part of insurance on the vehicle, aircraft or draft or riding animal. (b) Liability insurance. Insurance against legal liability for the death, injury or disability of any human being, or for damage to property, including liability resulting from negligence in rendering expert, fiduciary or professional services; and provisions of medical, hospital, surgical, disability benefits to injured persons and funeral and death benefits to dependents, beneficiaries or personal representatives of persons killed, irrespective of legal liability of the insured, when issued as an incidental coverage with or supplemental to liability insurance. (c) Workmen’s compensation and employer’s liability. Insurance of the obligations accepted by, imposed upon or assumed by employers under law for death, disablement or injury of employees. (d) Burglary and theft. Insurance against loss or damage by burglary, theft, larceny, robbery, forgery, fraud, vandalism, malicious mischief, confiscation, or wrongful conversion, disposal or concealment, or from any attempt at any of the foregoing, including supplemental coverage for medical, hospital, surgical and funeral expense incurred by the named insured or any other person as a result of bodily injury during the commission of a burglary, robbery or theft by another, and also, insurance against loss of or damage to moneys, coins, bullion, securities, notes, drafts, acceptances or any other valuable papers and documents, resulting from any cause. (e) Personal property floater. Insurance upon personal effects against loss or damage from any cause. (f) Glass. Insurance against loss or damage to glass, including its lettering, ornamentation and fittings. (g) Boiler and machinery. Insurance against any liability and loss or damage to property or interest resulting from accidents to or explosions of boilers, pipes, pressure containers, machinery or apparatus, and to make inspection of and issue certificates of inspection upon boilers, machinery and apparatus of any kind, whether or not insured. (h) Leakage and fire extinguishing equipment. Insurance against loss or damage to any property or interest caused by the breakage or leakage of sprinklers, hoses, pumps and other fire-extinguishing equipment or apparatus, water pipes or containers, or by water entering through leaks or openings in buildings, and insurance against loss or damage to such sprinklers, hoses, pumps and other fire-extinguishing equipment or apparatus. (i) Credit and mortgage guaranty. Insurance against loss or damage resulting from failure of debtors to pay their obligations to the insured, and insurance of real property mortgage lenders against loss by reason of nonpayment of the mortgage indebtedness. (j) Elevator. Insurance against loss of or damage to any property of the insured, resulting from the ownership, maintenance or use of elevators, except loss or damage by fire, and to make inspection of and issue certificates of inspection upon, elevators. (k) Congenital defects. Insurance against congenital defects in human beings. (l) Livestock. Insurance against loss or damage to livestock, and services of a veterinary for such animals. (m) Entertainments. Insurance indemnifying the producer of any motion picture, television, radio, theatrical, sport, spectacle, entertainment, or similar production, event or exhibition against loss from interruption, postponement or cancellation thereof due to death, accidental injury or sickness of performers, participants, directors or other principals. (n) Miscellaneous. Insurance against any other kind of loss, damage or liability properly a subject of insurance and not within any other kind of insurance as defined in this chapter, if such insurance is not disapproved by the Commissioner as being contrary to law or public policy, including insurance for home protection issued pursuant to NRS 690B.100 to 690B.180, inclusive. 2. Provision of medical, hospital, surgical and funeral benefits, and of coverage against accidental death or injury, as incidental to and part of other insurance as stated under paragraphs (a) (vehicle), (b) (liability), (d) (burglary), (g) (boiler and machinery), and (j) (elevator) of subsection 1 shall for all purposes be deemed to be the same kind of insurance to which it is so incidental, and is not subject to provisions of this Code applicable to life and health insurances. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1601; A 1975, 400; 1981, 1319) NRS 681A.030 “Health insurance” defined. “Health insurance” is insurance of human beings against bodily injury, disablement or death by accident or accidental means, or the expense thereof, or against disablement or expense resulting from sickness, and every insurance appertaining thereto, together with provisions operating to safeguard contracts of health insurance against lapse in the event of strike or layoff due to labor disputes. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1603) NRS 681A.040 “Life insurance” defined. “Life insurance” is insurance on human lives. The transaction of life insurance includes the granting of endowment benefits, additional incidental benefits in the event of death or dismemberment by accident or accidental means, additional incidental benefits in the event of the insured’s disability, optional modes of settlement of proceeds of life insurance, and provisions operating to safeguard contr

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