TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES
DIVISION 7: INSURANCE
§ 7109. Records. (a) The Insurance Commissioner shall preserve in permanent form, records of proceedings, hearings, investigations, and examinations, and shall file those records in the commissioner’s office or a government storage area. (b) The records of the commissioner and insurance filings in his or her office shall be open to public inspection, except as otherwise provided by this division. (c) Five years after conclusion of transactions to which they relate, the commissioner may destroy any correspondence, claim files, working papers of examinations of insurers, reports of examination by state insurance supervisory officials, void or obsolete filings relating to rates, foreign or alien insurer’s annual statements, valuation reports, license applications, cards, expired bonds, records of hearings, investigations, and any similar records, documents, or memoranda now or hereafter in the commissioner’s possession. (d) Ten years after the year to which they relate, the commissioner may destroy any foreign or alien insurer’s tax reports, or similar records or reports now or hereafter in the commissioner’s possession. Source: PL 3-107, § 9.