26-33-101. Definitions.
(a) As used in this chapter:
(i) "Account" means the medical liability compensation account;
(ii) "Board" means the board of directors of the medical liability compensation account;
(iii) "Health care" means any act or treatment performed or furnished, or which should have been performed or furnished, by any physician for, to, or on behalf of a patient during the patient's medical care, treatment or confinement;
(iv) "Insurer" means an authority or an insurance company engaged in writing malpractice liability insurance in this state in accordance with this code;
(v) "Malpractice" means the rendering of or failure to render professional medical services as a result of which the patient has a cause of action against a licensed physician for monetary damages;
(vi) "Physician" means a person licensed by the state board of medicine to provide health care or professional services as a physician.