2015 Wyoming Code
TITLE 26 - INSURANCE CODE
CHAPTER 5 - KINDS OF INSURANCE, LIMITS OF RISK, REINSURANCE
SECTION 26-5-106. - "Casualty insurance" defined.

26-5-106. "Casualty insurance" defined.

(a) Casualty insurance includes:

(i) Insurance against:

(A) 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 cause;

(B) Any loss, liability or expense resulting from or incidental to ownership, maintenance or use of any vehicle, aircraft or animal; and

(C) Accidental injury to individuals, regardless 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 the insurance is issued as an incidental part of insurance on the vehicle, aircraft or draft or riding animal.

(ii) Insurance against legal liability for the death, injury, or disability of any human being or for damage to property, and provision of medical, hospital, surgical and disability benefits to injured persons and funeral and death benefits to dependents, beneficiaries or personal representatives of persons killed, regardless of legal liability of the insured, if issued as an incidental coverage with or supplemental to liability insurance;

(iii) Insurance of the obligations accepted by, imposed upon or assumed by employers under law for death, disablement or injury of employees;

(iv) Insurance against loss or damage:

(A) By actual or attempted burglary, theft, robbery, forgery, fraud, vandalism, malicious mischief, confiscation, wrongful conversion, disposal or concealment, 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;

(B) To monies, coins, bullion, securities, notes, drafts, acceptances or any other valuable papers and documents from any cause.

(v) Insurance upon personal effects against loss or damage from any cause;

(vi) Insurance against loss or damage to glass, including its lettering, ornamentation and fittings;

(vii) 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 the inspection of and issuance of certificates of inspection upon boilers, machinery and apparatus of any kind, whether or not insured;

(viii) Insurance against loss or damage to:

(A) 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

(B) The sprinklers, hoses, pumps and other fire extinguishing equipment or apparatus.

(ix) Insurance indemnifying the insured against loss or damage resulting from failure of debtors to pay their obligations to the insured, including insurance to guarantee the repayment of real estate mortgages;

(x) Insurance against:

(A) Legal liability of the insured; and

(B) Loss, damage, or expense incidental to a claim of that liability, including medical, hospital, surgical and funeral benefits to injured persons, regardless of legal liability of the insured, because of death, injury or disablement of any person or damage to the economic interests of any person as the result of negligence in rendering expert, fiduciary or professional service.

(xi) 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 including the inspection of and issuance of certificates of inspection upon elevators;

(xii) Insurance against congenital defects in human beings;

(xiii) Insurance against loss or damage to livestock and services of a veterinary for those animals;

(xiv) 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 because of death, accidental injury or sickness of performers, participants, directors or other principals;

(xv) 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 the commissioner does not disapprove the insurance as being contrary to law or public policy.

(b) 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)(i), (ii), (iv), (vii), (x) and (xi) of this section is for all purposes the same kind of insurance to which it is so incidental and is not subject to provisions of this code applicable to life or disability insurances.