2006 Utah Code - 78-14-9 — Professional liability insurance coverage for providers -- Insurance commissioner may require joint underwriting authority.

     78-14-9.   Professional liability insurance coverage for providers -- Insurance commissioner may require joint underwriting authority.
     If the commissioner finds after a hearing that in any part of this state any professional liability insurance coverage for health care providers is not readily available in the voluntary market, and that the public interest requires, he may by regulation promulgate and implement plans to provide insurance coverage through all insurers issuing professional liability policies and individual and group accident and sickness policies providing medical, surgical or hospital expense coverage on either a prepaid or an expense incurred basis, including personal injury protection and medical expense coverage issued incidental to liability insurance policies.

Enacted by Chapter 23, 1976 General Session