(a) On or before March first of each year, each provider shall file with the commissioner an annual statement containing such information as the commissioner may prescribe. The commissioner shall adopt regulations, in accordance with chapter 54, to prescribe the contents of such annual statement, which shall include, but not be limited to, for any policy settled within five years of policy issuance, the total number, aggregate face amount and life settlement proceeds of policies settled during the immediately preceding calendar year, a breakdown of the information by policy issue year, the names of the insurance companies whose policies have been settled and the brokers that have settled said policies. Such information shall be limited to only those transactions where the insured is a resident of this state and shall not include individual transaction data regarding the business of life settlements or information where there is a reasonable basis to conclude such data or information could be used to identify the owner or the insured.

(b) Each provider that wilfully fails to file an annual statement as required in this section or wilfully fails to reply not later than thirty days to a written inquiry by the commissioner in connection therewith, shall, in addition to other penalties provided by this part, be subject upon due notice and opportunity to be heard to a penalty of up to two hundred fifty dollars per day of delay, not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars in the aggregate, for each such failure.

(c) Except as otherwise required or permitted by law, no person, including, but not limited to, a provider, broker, insurance company, insurance producer, information bureau, rating agency or company, or any other person with actual knowledge of an insured's identity, shall disclose such identity or information where there is a reasonable basis to conclude such information could be used to identify the insured or the insured's financial or medical information to any other person unless such disclosure: (1) Is necessary to effect a life settlement contract between the owner and a provider and the owner and insured have provided prior written consent to such disclosure; (2) is provided in response to an investigation or examination by the commissioner or any other governmental office or agency or pursuant to the requirements of section 38a-465i; (3) is necessary to effectuate the sale of life settlement contracts or interests therein as investments, provided the sale is conducted in accordance with applicable state and federal securities laws, and provided further the owner and the insured have both provided prior written consent to the disclosure; (4) is a term of or condition to the transfer of a policy by one provider to another provider, in which case the provider receiving such information shall comply with the confidentiality requirements specified in this subsection; (5) is necessary to allow the provider or broker or their authorized representatives to make contacts for the purpose of determining health status. For the purpose of this section, “authorized representative” does not include any person who has or may have a financial interest in the settlement contract other than a provider, licensed broker, financing entity, related provider trust or special purpose entity. Each provider or broker shall require its authorized representative to agree in writing to comply with the privacy provisions of this part; or (6) is required to purchase stop loss coverage.

(d) Nonpublic personal information solicited or obtained in connection with a proposed or actual life settlement contract shall be subject to the provisions applicable to financial institutions under the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, P.L. 106-102, as amended from time to time, and all other applicable state and federal laws relating to confidentiality of nonpublic personal information.

(P.A. 97-202, S. 6, 18; P.A. 03-152, S. 5; P.A. 08-175, S. 5.)

History: P.A. 97-202 effective January 1, 1998; P.A. 03-152 amended Subsec. (a) to delete “the provisions of” re chapter 54, and amended Subsec. (c) to substitute “viatical settlement investment agent” for “viatical settlement agent” and “knowledge of an insured's identity” for “knowledge of a viator's identity”, reposition certain provisions of former Subdiv. (3) re term of or condition to a transaction or transfer to new Subdiv. (4) and add new Subdivs. (3) and (5) to (7), inclusive, re permitted reasons for disclosure; P.A. 08-175 deleted provisions re viatical settlement and made technical and conforming changes, amended Subsec. (a) and added new Subsec. (b) re contents of annual statement and penalties re failure to provide statement, deleted former Subsec. (b) re identifying information, amended Subsec. (c) by deleting former Subdiv. (5) and renumbering existing Subdivs. (6) and (7) as new Subdivs. (5) and (6), and amended Subsecs. (c) and (d) by revising confidentiality requirements.