(a) Each insurance company doing business in this state shall, annually, on or before the first day of March, render to the Insurance Commissioner a true record of the number, according to classification, of cancellations of and refusals to renew professional liability insurance policies for the year ending on the thirty-first day of December next preceding.
*(b) For purposes of sections 38a-393 to 38a-395, inclusive, “professional liability insurance” means professional liability contracts for: (1) Physicians and surgeons, (2) hospitals, (3) lawyers, (4) dentists, (5) architects and engineers, (6) chiropractors, (7) licensed naturopaths, (8) podiatrists, (9) advanced practice registered nurses, and (10) physical therapists and such other categories as the Insurance Commissioner, in the commissioner's discretion, shall adopt by regulations in accordance with chapter 54.
(P.A. 76-61; P.A. 77-614, S. 163, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 330, 348; P.A. 84-208; P.A. 90-90, S. 2; P.A. 94-71, S. 6; P.A. 99-102, S. 44; 99-168, S. 7; P.A. 06-195, S. 85.)
*Note: On and after October 1, 2019, subsection (b) of this section, as amended by section 66 of public act 18-168, is to read as follows:
“(b) For purposes of sections 38a-393 to 38a-395, inclusive, “professional liability insurance” means professional liability contracts for: (1) Physicians and surgeons, (2) hospitals, (3) lawyers, (4) dentists, (5) architects and engineers, (6) chiropractors, (7) licensed naturopaths, (8) podiatrists, (9) advanced practice registered nurses, (10) physical therapists, and (11) massage therapists and such other categories as the Insurance Commissioner, in the commissioner's discretion, shall adopt by regulations in accordance with chapter 54.”
(P.A. 76-61; P.A. 77-614, S. 163, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 330, 348; P.A. 84-208; P.A. 90-90, S. 2; P.A. 94-71, S. 6; P.A. 99-102, S. 44; 99-168, S. 7; P.A. 06-195, S. 85; P.A. 18-168, S. 66.)
History: 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; P.A. 84-208 added Subsec. (b) requiring the insurance commissioner to adopt regulations defining the word “professional” for purposes of this chapter; P.A. 90-90 amended Subsec. (b) to define “professional liability insurance”, replacing prior provision which had authorized commissioner to adopt regulations defining “professional”; Sec. 38-370a transferred to Sec. 38a-393 in 1991; P.A. 94-71 amended Subsec. (b) by adding references to “osteopathic physicians”, “chiropractors”, “licensed naturopaths” and “podiatrists” in definition of “professional liability insurance”; P.A. 99-102 amended Subsec. (b) by deleting former Subdiv. (6) re obsolete reference to osteopathic physicians, renumbering the remaining Subdivs. and making a technical change; P.A. 99-168 amended Subsec. (b) by adding advanced practice registered nurses and making a technical change; P.A. 06-195 added Subsec. (b)(10) to include physical therapists in definition of “professional liability insurance”; P.A. 18-168 amended Subsec. (b) by adding Subdiv. (11) re massage therapists, and making a conforming change, effective October 1, 2019.
See Sec. 20-73d re professional liability insurance requirements for physical therapists.
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