42.56.400 - Insurance and financial institutions.

Insurance and financial institutions.

The following information relating to insurance and financial institutions is exempt from disclosure under this chapter:

     (1) Records maintained by the board of industrial insurance appeals that are related to appeals of crime victims' compensation claims filed with the board under RCW 7.68.110;

     (2) Information obtained and exempted or withheld from public inspection by the health care authority under RCW 41.05.026, whether retained by the authority, transferred to another state purchased health care program by the authority, or transferred by the authority to a technical review committee created to facilitate the development, acquisition, or implementation of state purchased health care under chapter 41.05 RCW;

     (3) The names and individual identification data of either all owners or all insureds, or both, received by the insurance commissioner under chapter 48.102 RCW;

     (4) Information provided under RCW 48.30A.045 through 48.30A.060;

     (5) Information provided under RCW 48.05.510 through 48.05.535, 48.43.200 through 48.43.225, 48.44.530 through48.44.555 , and 48.46.600 through 48.46.625;

     (6) Examination reports and information obtained by the department of financial institutions from banks under RCW 30.04.075, from savings banks under RCW 32.04.220, from savings and loan associations under RCW 33.04.110, from credit unions under RCW 31.12.565, from check cashers and sellers under RCW 31.45.030(3), and from securities brokers and investment advisers under RCW 21.20.100, all of which is confidential and privileged information;

     (7) Information provided to the insurance commissioner under RCW 48.110.040(3);

     (8) Documents, materials, or information obtained by the insurance commissioner under RCW 48.02.065, all of which are confidential and privileged;

     (9) Confidential proprietary and trade secret information provided to the commissioner under RCW 48.31C.020 through 48.31C.050 and 48.31C.070;

     (10) Data filed under RCW 48.140.020, 48.140.030, 48.140.050, and 7.70.140 that, alone or in combination with any other data, may reveal the identity of a claimant, health care provider, health care facility, insuring entity, or self-insurer involved in a particular claim or a collection of claims. For the purposes of this subsection:

     (a) "Claimant" has the same meaning as in RCW 48.140.010(2).

     (b) "Health care facility" has the same meaning as in RCW 48.140.010(6).

     (c) "Health care provider" has the same meaning as in RCW 48.140.010(7).

     (d) "Insuring entity" has the same meaning as in RCW 48.140.010(8).

     (e) "Self-insurer" has the same meaning as in RCW 48.140.010(11);

     (11) Documents, materials, or information obtained by the insurance commissioner under RCW 48.135.060;

     (12) Documents, materials, or information obtained by the insurance commissioner under RCW 48.37.060;

     (13) Confidential and privileged documents obtained or produced by the insurance commissioner and identified in RCW 48.37.080;

     (14) Documents, materials, or information obtained by the insurance commissioner under RCW 48.37.140;

     (15) Documents, materials, or information obtained by the insurance commissioner under RCW 48.17.595;

     (16) Documents, materials, or information obtained by the insurance commissioner under RCW 48.102.051(1) and 48.102.140 (3) and (7)(a)(ii);

     (17) Documents, materials, or information obtained by the insurance commissioner in the commissioner's capacity as receiver under RCW 48.31.025 and 48.99.017, which are records under the jurisdiction and control of the receivership court. The commissioner is not required to search for, log, produce, or otherwise comply with the public records act for any records that the commissioner obtains under chapters 48.31 and 48.99 RCW in the commissioner's capacity as a receiver, except as directed by the receivership court; and

     (18) Data, information, and documents provided by a carrier pursuant to section 1, chapter 172, Laws of 2010.

[2010 c 172 § 2; 2010 c 97 § 3; 2009 c 104 § 23. Prior: 2007 c 197 § 7; 2007 c 117 § 36; 2007 c 82 § 17; prior: 2006 c 284 § 17; 2006 c 8 § 210; 2005 c 274 § 420.]

Notes: Reviser's note: This section was amended by 2010 c 97 § 3 and by 2010 c 172 § 2, each without reference to the other. Both amendments are incorporated in the publication of this section under RCW 1.12.025(2). For rule of construction, see RCW 1.12.025(1).

Severability -- Effective date -- 2007 c 117: See RCW 48.17.900 and 48.17.901.

Severability -- Effective date -- 2006 c 284: See RCW 48.135.900 and 48.135.901.

Effective date -- 2006 c 8 §§ 112 and 210: See note following RCW 42.56.360.

Findings -- Intent -- Part headings and subheadings not law -- Severability -- 2006 c 8: See notes following RCW 5.64.010.