"Absence of bad faith" means without serious doubt that the information furnished or received, or the report or bulletin published, is not true.
"Absence of fraud" means without knowledge that the information furnished or received, or the report or bulletin published, is not true.
"Fraudulent insurance act" means an act committed by a person who, knowingly and with intent to defraud, presents, causes to be presented or prepares with knowledge or belief that it will be presented to or by an insurer, purported insurer or broker, or an agent of an insurer, purported insurer or broker, information as part or in support of an application for the issuance or rating of an insurance policy for commercial or personal insurance, or a claim for payment or other benefit pursuant to an insurance policy for commercial or personal insurance which he knows to contain materially false information concerning a fact material to the statement or claim or to conceal, for the purpose of misleading, information concerning a fact material to the statement or claim.
"Insurer" means an insurance company, association, exchange, interinsurance exchange, health maintenance organization, preferred provider organization, professional health services plan corporation subject to 40 Pa.C.S. Ch. 63 (relating to professional health services plan corporations), a hospital plan corporation subject to 40 Pa.C.S. Ch. 61 (relating to hospital plan corporations), fraternal benefit society, beneficial association, Lloyd's insurer or health plan corporation.
40 P.S. § 474.1