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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>67887</law_id><section_number>38.2-2900</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="38.2">Insurance</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="29">Commercial Liability Insurance Joint Underwriting Association</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Association</span>&#x201D; means the joint underwriting <span class="dictionary">association</span> established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Commercial liability insurance</span>&#x201D; means the commercial classes of insurance defined in &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Personal injury liability" href="/38.2-117/">38.2-117</a> and <a class="law" title="Property damage liability" href="/38.2-118/">38.2-118</a>, but for the purposes of this chapter, does not include medical malpractice insurance as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/38.2-2800/">38.2-2800</a>, nuclear liability or any risks, lines, or subclassifications that are determined by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> to be uninsurable; provided, no such determination shall be based solely upon <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> that no <span class="dictionary">insurers</span> are then insuring such risk, line, or subclassification. The <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> may exclude from this definition any other line, subclassification or type of <span class="dictionary">commercial liability insurance</span> as it deems appropriate.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Incidental coverage</span>&#x201D; means any other type of liability insurance covering activities directly related to the continued and efficient delivery of business and professional services that: (i) cannot be separately obtained in the voluntary market because <span class="dictionary">commercial liability insurance</span> is being provided pursuant this chapter; and (ii) cannot be separately obtained through other involuntary market mechanisms.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Market assistance plan</span>&#x201D; means a voluntary <span class="dictionary">association</span> of <span class="dictionary">insurers</span> and insurance agents licensed to do business in the Commonwealth that is formed, pursuant to a plan of operation filed with and approved by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, to assist with the individual placement of <span class="dictionary">commercial liability insurance</span> coverage that is not reasonably available on the voluntary market.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Net direct premiums written</span>&#x201D; means gross direct premiums written in this Commonwealth on all policies of liability insurance less (i) all return premiums on the policy, (ii) dividends paid or credited to policyholders, and (iii) the unused or unabsorbed portions of premium deposits on liability insurance. For the purposes of this chapter, &#x201C;liability insurance&#x201D; means the classes of insurance defined in &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Personal injury liability" href="/38.2-117/">38.2-117</a> through <a class="law" title="Workers' compensation and employers' liability" href="/38.2-119/">38.2-119</a>, and the liability portions of the insurance defined in &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Motor vehicle" href="/38.2-124/">38.2-124</a>, <a class="law" title="Aircraft" href="/38.2-125/">38.2-125</a> and <a class="law" title="Homeowners insurance" href="/38.2-130/">38.2-130</a> through <a class="law" title="Commercial multi-peril insurance" href="/38.2-132/">38.2-132</a>.</p></section></text><history>1988, cc. 769, 783.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
