§431E-14 - Confidentiality of examination information.
[§431E-14] Confidentiality of examinationinformation. (a) Names and individual identification data for all owners,purchasers, and insureds shall be considered private and confidentialinformation and shall not be disclosed by the commissioner, unless thedisclosure is to another regulator or is required by law.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in thischapter, all examination reports, working papers, recorded information,documents and copies thereof produced by, obtained by, or disclosed to the commissioneror any other person in the course of an examination made under this chapter, orin the course of analysis or investigation by the commissioner of the financialcondition or market conduct of a licensee, shall be confidential by law andprivileged, shall not be subject to chapter 92F, shall not be subject tosubpoena, and shall not be subject to discovery or admissible in evidence inany private civil action. The commissioner is authorized to use the documents,materials, or other information in the furtherance of any regulatory or legalaction brought as part of the commissioner's official duties. The licenseebeing examined may have access to all documents used to make the report. [L2008, c 177, pt of §1]