Section 12938 Of Article 1. Generally From California Insurance Code >> Division 3. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 1.
12938
. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department
shall make available for public inspection and publish on its
Internet Web site all of the information described in subdivisions
(a) and (b). This information shall be maintained in a current,
up-to-date condition. All identifying and privileged information
regarding individual policyholders shall be redacted from documents
available for public inspection and on the Internet Web site.
(a) All fully executed stipulations, orders, decisions,
settlements, or other forms of agreement resolving market conduct
examinations, whether the examinations were finalized, terminated, or
suspended, that pertain to unfair or deceptive practices in the
business of insurance as defined in Section 790.03.
(b) (1) Every adopted report of a market conduct examination of
unfair or deceptive practices in the business of insurance as defined
in Section 790.03 that is adopted as filed, or as modified or
corrected, by the commissioner pursuant to Section 734.1.
(2) The commissioner upon adopting the report shall transmit a
copy of the report, either electronically or by certified United
States mail, to a representative that the examined insurer designated
by that insurer to receive the report, or in the case of an
examination of more than one insurer in an insurer group, to a single
representative of the group designated to receive the report on
behalf of all examined insurers. Within 20 business days after the
transmittal, the examined insurer may submit comments to the
commissioner relating to the adopted report. The comments shall be in
a form and length as provided by regulation.
(3) Twenty business days after the transmittal the commissioner
shall publish on the department's Internet Web site the adopted
report and any comments submitted by the examined insurer unless a
court of competent jurisdiction has stayed the publication of the
report.
(c) This section may not be construed to require the disclosure of
company workpapers or other company documents discovered during the
course of an examination or any preliminary report of the
examination, except as otherwise permitted by law.