56-11-108 - Confidentiality of investigations and examinations.

56-11-108. Confidentiality of investigations and examinations.

All information, documents and copies thereof obtained by or disclosed to the commissioner or any other person in the course of an examination or investigation made pursuant to § 56-11-107, and all information reported pursuant to §§ 56-11-105 and 56-11-106, shall be given confidential treatment and shall not be subject to subpoena and shall not be made public by the commissioner, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, or any other person, except to insurance departments of other states, without the prior written consent of the insurer or health maintenance organization to which it pertains unless the commissioner, after giving the insurer or health maintenance organization and its affiliates who would be affected thereby notice and opportunity to be heard, determines that the interest of policyholders, enrollees, providers, shareholders or the public will be served by the publication thereof, in which event the commissioner may publish all or any part thereof, in the manner the commissioner may deem appropriate.

[Acts 1986, ch. 572, § 8; 2000, ch. 708, § 3g; T.C.A. § 56-11-208.]