25.8123.01000
Sixty-ninth
Legislative Assembly
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Industry and Business Committee
(At the request of the Insurance Commissioner)
A BILL for an Act to amend and reenact subsection 1 of section 26.1-02-31 of the North Dakota
Century Code, relating to confidentiality of insurance department records.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Subsection 1 of section 26.1-02-31 of the North Dakota
Century Code is amended and reenacted as follows:
1.A document, material, or other information, including the contents of a claim file, which
is provided to, obtained by, created by, or disclosed to the commissioner in response
to a consumer assistance request or a complaint is confidential and not subject to
section 44-04-18, a subpoena to the department, or discovery request or admissible
as evidence in a private civil action. However, the commissioner may disclose the
subject matter of the assistance request or complaint, provide a general description of
the disposition of the request or complaint, andThe commissioner may use the
document, material, or other information for a regulatory or legal action brought as a
part of the official duties of the commissioner. This section does not preclude the
commissioner from publishing orders resulting from administrative action taken by the
commissioner or providing the general description of the disposition of the consumer
assistance request or complaint.
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