(a) The Insurance Commissioner shall, at least once every five years, and may as often as may be reasonable and necessary, make or cause to be made an examination of each licensed rating organization, and he may, as often as may be reasonable and necessary make or cause to be made an examination of any advisory organization or group, association or other organization which engages in joint underwriting or joint reinsurance. In lieu of any such examination, said commissioner may accept the report of an examination made by the insurance supervisory official of another state. In examining any organization, group or association pursuant to this section said commissioner shall ascertain whether such organization, group or association, and, in the case of a rating organization, any rate or rating system made or used by it, complies with the requirements and standards of sections 38a-663 to 38a-681, inclusive, applicable to it.

(b) The Insurance Commissioner may, at any reasonable time, make or cause to be made an examination of every admitted insurer transacting any class of insurance to which the provisions of said sections are applicable to ascertain whether such insurer and every rate and rating system used by it for every such class of insurance complies with the requirements and standards of said sections applicable thereto. Such examination shall not be a part of a periodic general examination participated in by representatives of more than one state.

(c) The officers, managers, agents and employees of any such organization, group, association, or insurer may be examined at any time under oath and shall exhibit all books, records, accounts, documents or agreements governing its method of operation, together with all data, statistics and information of every kind and character collected or considered by such organization, group, association or insurer in the conduct of the operations to which such examination relates.

(d) The reasonable cost of any examination authorized by this section shall be paid by the organization, group, association or insurer to be examined.

(1969, P.A. 665, S. 15; P.A. 77-614, S. 163, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 313, 348.)

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; Sec. 38-201o transferred to Sec. 38a-677 in 1991.