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Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
As used in this chapter, unless otherwise required by the context:
1. “Policy” means an automobile insurance policy providing bodily injury liability, property damage liability, medical payments, uninsured motorist coverage, physical damage coverage, or any combination thereof, delivered or issued for delivery in this state, insuring a single individual or one or more related individuals resident in the same household, as named insured, and insuring vehicles of the following types only:
a. Motor vehicles of the private passenger or station wagon type which are not used as public conveyances nor rented to others.
b. Any other four-wheel motor vehicles with a load capacity of one thousand five hundred pounds or less which are not used in the business or profession of the insured.
2. “Renewal” or “to renew” means the issuance and delivery by an insurer of a policy replacing at the end of the previous policy term a policy previously issued and delivered by the same insurer, or the issuance and delivery of a certificate or notice extending the coverage of the policy beyond its original term.
a. Any renewal policy, other than a replacement policy for an unfinished term, with a term of six months or less shall be considered written, for the purposes of this chapter, for a term of six months.
b. Any policy written for a term longer than one year or with no fixed expiration date shall be considered written for successive policy terms of one year.
3. “Nonpayment of premium” means failure of the named insured to discharge when due any of the named insured's obligations in connection with the payment of premiums on the policy, or any installment of a premium, whether the premium is payable directly to the insurer or its agent or indirectly under any premium finance plan or extension of credit.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Iowa Code Title XIII. Commerce [Chs. 505-554D] § 515D.2. Definitions - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ia/title-xiii-commerce-chs-505-554d/ia-code-sect-515d-2/
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