Each such corporation shall annually, on or before March first, file in the office of the Insurance Commissioner a statement, verified by at least two of its principal officers, showing its condition on the thirty-first day of December then next preceding, which shall be in such form and contain such information as said commissioner prescribes. Examination of the financial condition of each such corporation by the Insurance Commissioner or his representatives shall be made at least once in every five years. Said commissioner, or any deputy or examiner or any other person whom he appoints, shall have the power of visitation and examination into the affairs of any such corporation and free access to all of the books, papers and documents that relate to the business of the corporation, and may summon and qualify as witnesses under oath, for the purpose of examination, its officers, agents or employees or other persons in relation to the affairs, transactions and conditions of the corporation. All costs of acquisition and of management activities shall be under the supervision of the Insurance Commissioner.

(1949 Rev., S. 5273; 1953, S. 2596d; P.A. 77-614, S. 163, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 216, 348; P.A. 81-101, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 77-614 made insurance department a division within the department of business regulation with commissioner as its head, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 restored division as independent department with commissioner as its head and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 81-101 required that insurance commissioner examine financial condition of each hospital service corporation every five years, rather than biennially; Sec. 33-160 transferred to Sec. 38a-202 in 1991.

Annotation to former section 33-160:

Section empowers Insurance Commissioner as supervisor of costs of management activities; his determination of administrative costs in a Blue Cross rate increase hearing sustained on appeal. 31 CS 257.