New York Laws
Article 74 - Rehabilitation, Liquidation, Conservation and Dissolution of Insurers
7408 - Uniform Insurers Liquidation Act; Title; Definitions.

(b) In this act:
(1) "Insurer" means any person, firm, corporation, association, or
aggregation of persons doing an insurance business and subject to the
insurance supervisory authority of, or to liquidation, rehabilitation,
reorganization, or conservation by, the superintendent of financial
services of this state, or the equivalent insurance supervisory official
of another state.
(2) "Delinquency proceeding" means any proceeding commenced against an
insurer for the purpose of liquidating, rehabilitating, reorganizing, or
conserving such insurer.
(3) "Foreign country" means territory not in any state.
(4) "Domiciliary state" means the state in which an insurer is
incorporated or organized, or, as to an insurer incorporated or
organized in a foreign country, the state in which such insurer, having
become authorized to do business in such state, has, at the commencement
of delinquency proceedings, the largest amount of its assets held in
trust and assets held on deposit for the benefit of its policyholders or
policyholders and creditors in the United States; and any such insurer
is deemed to be domiciled in such state.
(5) "Ancillary state" means any state except a domiciliary state.
(6) "Reciprocal state" means any state other than this state in which
in substance and effect the provisions of this act are in force,
including the provisions requiring that the insurance commissioner or
equivalent insurance supervisory official be the receiver of a
delinquent insurer.
(7) "General assets" means all property, real, personal, or otherwise,
not specifically mortgaged, pledged, deposited, or otherwise encumbered
for the security or benefit of specified persons or a limited class of
persons, and as to such specifically encumbered property the term
includes all such property or its proceeds in excess of the amount
necessary to discharge all sums secured thereby. Assets held in trust
and assets held on deposit for the security or benefit of all
policyholders, or all policyholders and creditors in the United States,
are general assets.
(8) "Preferred claim" means any claim with respect to which the law of
a state or of the United States accords priority of payment from the
general assets of the insurer.
(9) "Special deposit claim" means any claim secured by a deposit made
pursuant to statute for the security or benefit of a limited class of
persons, but not including any general assets.
(10) "Secured claim" means any claim secured by mortgage, trust, deed,
pledge, deposit as security, escrow, other security interest, or
otherwise, but not including special deposit claims or claims against
general assets. The term also includes claims which more than four
months prior to the commencement of delinquency proceedings in the state
of the insurer's domicile have become liens upon specific assets by
reason of judicial process.
(11) "Receiver" means receiver, liquidator, rehabilitator, or
conservator as the context may require.