2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 38a - Insurance
Chapter 700 - Property and Casualty Insurance
Section 38a-346 - (Formerly Sec. 38-175l). Liability of persons furnishing information to insured.

There shall be no liability on the part of and no cause of action of any nature shall arise against the Insurance Commissioner or against any insurer, its authorized representative, its agents, its employees, or any firm, person or corporation furnishing to the insured information as to reasons for cancellation or refusal to renew, for any statement made by any of them in any written notice of cancellation or of intention not to renew, or in any other communication, oral or written specifying the reasons for cancellation or refusal to renew, or the providing of information pertaining thereto, or for statements made or evidence submitted at any hearings conducted in connection therewith.

(1969, P.A. 809, S. 7; P.A. 77-199, S. 6, 12; 77-614, S. 163, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 299, 348.)

History: P.A. 77-199 added references to refusal to renew and notification of intention not to renew; P.A. 77-614 placed insurance commissioner within the department of business regulation and made insurance department a division within that department, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 restored insurance commissioner and division to prior independent status and abolished the department of business regulation; Sec. 38-175l transferred to Sec. 38a-346 in 1991.

Annotations to former section 38-175l:

Cited. 160 C. 280. Regulations under statute make “other insurance” clauses in conflict with the regulations. 161 C. 169.

Annotations to present section:

Cited. 234 C. 182.

Cited. 42 CA 177.