2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 38 - Insurance
Chapter 21 - INSURANCE HOLDING COMPANY REGULATORY ACT
Section 38-21-290 - Information must be kept confidential.

All information, documents, and copies thereof obtained by or disclosed to the director or any other person in the course of an examination or investigation made pursuant to Section 38-21-280 and all information reported pursuant to Sections 38-21-130 through 38-21-240 must be given confidential treatment and is not subject to subpoena and may not be made public by the director, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, or any other persons, except to insurance departments of other states, without the prior written consent of the insurer to which it pertains unless the director or his designee, after giving the insurer and its affiliates who would be affected thereby notice and opportunity to be heard, determines that the interests of policyholders, shareholders, or the public will be served by the publication thereof, in which event he may publish all or any part thereof in the manner he considers appropriate.

HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 38-21-290 [1947 (45) 322; 1952 Code Section 37-879; 1962 Code Section 37-879] recodified as Section 38-37-290 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; Former 1976 Code Section 38-29-280 [1962 Code Section 37-1426; 1971 (57) 351; 1986 Act No. 426, Section 19] recodified as Section 38-21-290 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 585.