(a) “Accepted actuarial standards” shall mean the standards adopted by the Casualty Actuarial Society in its Statement of Principles Regarding Property and Casualty Insurance Ratemaking, and the Standards of Practice adopted by the Actuarial Standards Board.
(b) “Advisory organization” shall mean any organization or person which either has 2 or more member insurers or is controlled either directly or indirectly by 2 or more insurers and which assists insurers in ratemaking related activities. Two or more insurers having a common ownership or operating in this State under common management or control constitute a single insurer for purposes of this definition. Advisory organization does not include a joint underwriting association, any actuarial or legal consultant, any employee of an insurer or insurers under common control or management or their employees or manager.
(c) “Classification system” shall mean the plan, system, or arrangement for recognizing differences in exposure to hazards among industries, occupations or operations of insurance policyholders.
(d) “Contingencies” shall mean provisions in rates to recognize the uncertainty of the estimates of losses, loss adjustment expenses, other operating expenses, investment income and profit which comprise those rates. Such provisions may be explicit (i.e., a specific charge to reflect systematic variations of estimated costs from expected costs), implicit (i.e., a consideration in selecting a single estimate from a reasonable range of estimates) or both.
(e) “Developed losses” shall mean adjusted losses (including loss adjustment expenses), using accepted actuarial standards, to eliminate the effect of differences between current payment or reserve estimates and those needed to provide actual ultimate loss (including loss adjustment expense) payments.
(f) “Expenses” shall mean that portion of any rate attributable to acquisition, filed supervision and collection expenses, general expenses and taxes, licenses and fees.
(g) “Experience rating” shall mean a rating procedure utilizing past insurance experience of the individual policyholder to forecast future losses by measuring the policyholder's loss experience against the loss experience of policyholders in the same classification to produce a prospective premium credit, debit or unity modification.
(h) “Insurer” shall mean any person licensed to write workers' compensation insurance under the laws of the State.
(i) “Loss trending” shall mean any procedure for projecting developed losses to the average date of loss for the period during which the policies are to be effective, including loss ratio trending.
(j) “Market” shall mean the interaction in this State between buyers and sellers of workers' compensation and employer's liability insurance pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
(k) “Prospective loss costs” shall mean historical aggregate losses and loss adjustment expenses, including all assessments that are loss-based, projected through development to their ultimate value and through trending to a future point in time, ascertained by accepted actuarial standards. Prospective loss costs do not include provisions for profit or expenses other than loss adjustment expenses and assessments that are loss-based.
(l) “Pure premium rate” shall mean that portion of the rate which represents the loss cost per unit of exposure including loss adjustment expense.
(m) “Rate” or “rates” shall mean rate of premium, policy and membership fee, or any other charge made by an insurer for or in connection with a contract or policy of workers' compensation and employer's liability insurance, prior to application of individual risk variations based on loss or expense considerations, and does not include minimum premiums.
(n) “Reserve estimates” shall mean provisions for insurer obligations for future payments of loss and/or loss adjustment expenses.
(o) “Statistical plan” shall mean the plan, system or arrangement used in collecting data.
(p) “Supplementary rate information” shall mean any manual or plan of rates, statistical plan, classification system, minimum premium, policy fee, rating rule, rate-related underwriting rule and any other information needed to determine the applicable premium for an individual insured and not otherwise inconsistent with the purposes of this chapter, as prescribed by rule of the Commissioner.
(q) “Supporting information” shall mean the experience and judgment of the filer and the experience or data of other insurers or advisory organizations relied on by the filer, the interpretation of any statistical data relied on by the filer, descriptions of methods used in making the rates and any other similar information required to be filed by the Commissioner.