2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 38 - Insurance
Chapter 95 - INTERSTATE INSURANCE PRODUCT REGULATION COMPACT
Section 38-95-80 - Records and information of commission; public inspection and copying; confidentiality or nondisclosure; enforcement.

(A) The commission shall adopt rules establishing conditions and procedures for public inspection and copying of its information and official records, except information and records involving the privacy of individuals and insurers' trade secrets. The commission may adopt additional rules under which it may make available to federal and state agencies, including law enforcement agencies, records, and information otherwise exempt from disclosure, and may enter into agreements with agencies to receive or exchange information or records subject to nondisclosure and confidentiality provisions.

(B) Except as to privileged records, data, and information, the laws of a compacting state pertaining to confidentiality or nondisclosure do not relieve a compacting state commissioner of the duty to disclose relevant records, data, or information to the commission. Disclosure to the commission does not waive or otherwise affect a confidentiality requirement. Except as otherwise expressly provided by this chapter, the commission is not subject to the compacting state's laws pertaining to confidentiality and nondisclosure with respect to records, data, and information in its possession. Confidential information of the commission remains confidential after the information is provided to a commissioner.

(C) The commission shall monitor compacting states for compliance with duly adopted bylaws, rules, including uniform standards, and operating procedures. The commission shall notify a noncomplying compacting state in writing of its noncompliance with commission bylaws, rules, or operating procedures. If a noncomplying compacting state fails to remedy its noncompliance within the time specified in the notice of noncompliance, the compacting state is deemed to be in default as provided in Section 38-95-140.

(D) The commissioner of a state in which an insurer is authorized to do business, or is conducting the business of insurance, shall continue to exercise his authority to oversee the market regulation of the activities of the insurer in accordance with the provisions of the state's law. The commissioner's enforcement of compliance with the compact is governed by the following provisions:

(1) with respect to the commissioner's market regulation of a product or advertisement that is approved or certified to the commission, the content of the product or advertisement does not constitute a violation of the provisions, standards, or requirements of the compact except upon a final order of the commission, issued at the request of a commissioner after prior notice to the insurer and an opportunity for hearing before the commission;

(2) before a commissioner may bring an action for violation of a provision, standard, or requirement of the compact relating to the content of an advertisement not approved or certified to the commission, the commission, or an authorized commission officer or employee, shall authorize the action. Authorization pursuant to this item does not require notice to the insurer, opportunity for hearing, or disclosure of requests for authorization or records of the commission's action on these requests.

HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 339, Section 2, eff January 1, 2009.