Michigan Compiled Laws, Chapter 550. General Insurance Laws § 550.521

(a) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of insurance.

(b) “Life insurance” means that term as defined in section 602 of the insurance code of 1956, Act No. 218 of the Public Acts of 1956, being section 500.602 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

(c) “Physician” means a person licensed in this or another state to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine.

(d) “Policy” means an individual life insurance policy or a certificate under a group life insurance policy.

(e) “Provider” means a person who enters into a viatical settlement contract with a viator. Provider does not mean any of the following:

(f) “Viatical settlement contract” or “contract” means a written agreement entered into between a provider and a viator in which the provider will pay consideration that is less than the expected death benefit of the viator's policy in return for the viator's assignment, transfer, sale, devise, or bequest of the death benefit or ownership of the policy to the provider.

(g) “Viator” means the owner or holder of a policy who has a terminal illness or condition and who enters into a viatical settlement contract.