(215 ILCS 5/900) (from Ch. 73, par. 1065.600)
Sec. 900.
Group legal expense defined.
Group legal expense insurance
means that form of legal expense insurance covering not less than 10 employees,
members, or employees of members, written under a master policy issued to
any governmental corporation, unit, agency or department thereof, or to
any corporation, copartnership, individual employer, or to any association
upon application of an executive officer or trustee of such association
having a constitution or bylaws and formed in good faith for purposes other
than that of obtaining insurance, where officers, members, employees, employees
of members or classes or departments thereof may be insured for their individual
benefit. In addition, a group legal expense policy may be written to insure
any group which may be insured under a group life insurance policy. The
term "employees" includes the officers, managers and employees or subsidiary
or affiliated corporations, and the individual proprietors, partners, and
employees of affiliated individuals and firms, when the business of such
subsidiary or affiliated corporations, firms or individuals is controlled
by a common employer through stock ownership, contract or otherwise.
(Source: P.A. 81-1361.)
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