IPolicyAssociation

IPolicyAssociation is the base contract for a relationship between two policies (e.g., a policy and its parent in a wrap-up or leasing arrangement). It reports the related policy number, whether this side of the relationship is the parent, and the IPolicyAssociationType describing the kind of relationship. IPolicyHeaderAssociation extends this contract with additional header-display fields.

Purpose

• Identify the related policy (PolicyNumber) and the kind of relationship (AssociationType) linking two policies.
• Indicate which side of the relationship is the parent via IsParent.

Context

• Namespace: SAIF.Business.Policy
• Assembly/package: SAIF.Business.Policy

Public members

Member	Signature	Purpose
PolicyNumber	ReadOnly Property PolicyNumber As Decimal	The policy number of the related (associated) policy.
IsParent	ReadOnly Property IsParent As Boolean	Indicates whether this association record represents the parent side of the relationship.
AssociationType	ReadOnly Property AssociationType As IPolicyAssociationType	The type of association (e.g., wrap-up, leasing company) linking the two policies.
Equals	Function Equals(ByVal inAssociation As IPolicyAssociation) As Boolean	Compares this association to another; the concrete implementation in clsPolicyAssociation (SAIF.Business.View.Policy) considers two associations equal when their AssociationType, PolicyNumber, and IsParent all match — the interface itself does not mandate this.*

Behavioral notes

• Source declaration: Business\SAIF.Business.Policy\IPolicyHeaderDataProvider.vb.
• Related operations, rules, and SQL are cross-referenced from the library-level documentation.

Constraints and usage notes

• Consumers should rely on the declared public surface rather than internal implementation details.

Note: Statements marked with * were inferred from code structure, naming conventions, or contextual evidence where direct confirmation was not available in source artifacts. Statements marked with ** could not be confirmed; treat as unknown until verified.

Sources

• Business\SAIF.Business.Policy\IPolicyHeaderDataProvider.vb