2016 Idaho Statutes
Title 41 - INSURANCE
Chapter 37 - IDAHO HOSPITAL LIABILITY TRUST ACT
Section 41-3702 - DEFINITIONS.

41-3702. Definitions. For the purpose of this act unless context otherwise requires:

(1) "Director" is the director of the department of insurance of this state.

(2) "Administrator" is a person, if other than the trustee, employed by the trustee to administer a hospital trust.

(3) "Trustee" is the trustee, whether a single or multiple trustee, of the hospital trust.

(4) "Person" is any individual, corporation, association, firm, syndicate, organization or other entity.

(5) "Contribution" is the amount paid or payable by a member into a trust fund.

(6) "Hospital trust" is any trust established pursuant to the provisions of this act by agreement of any hospitals, properly licensed by the state of Idaho, with such hospitals as grantors and beneficiaries of the trust, for the purpose of insuring against general public liability claims based upon acts or omissions of such hospitals, including but not limited to, claims based upon malpractice. A hospital trust may also insure against general public liability claims, including but not limited to, malpractice claims based upon acts or omissions of any employee, authorized volunteer worker or member of a medical staff committee, while acting within the scope of his duties as such, of a member hospital.

(7) "Hospital" means a place devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis, treatment or care for not less than twenty-four (24) hours in any week of two (2) or more nonrelated individuals suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity, or requiring care because of old age, or a place devoted primarily to providing for not less than twenty-four (24) hours in any week of obstetrical or other medical or nursing care for two (2) or more nonrelated individuals. The term "hospital" includes public health centers in general, tuberculosis, mental, chronic disease and other types of hospitals, and related facilities, such as laboratories, out-patient departments, hospital-affiliated nursing homes, nurses' homes and training facilities, and central service facilities operated in connection with hospitals.

History:

[41-3702, added 1977, ch. 204, sec. 2, p. 557.]