Utah Code § 31A-17-517 — Utah Code / Title 31A / Chapter 31A-17 / § 31A-17-517
§ 31A-17-517. Confidentiality.
Status: in_force

(1) For purposes of this section, "confidential information" means: (a) a memorandum in support of an opinion submitted under Section 31A-17-503 and any other document, material, and other information, including working papers, and copies of a document, material, and other information, created, produced, or obtained by or disclosed to the commissioner or any other person in connection with the memorandum; (b) a document, material, and other information, including working papers, and copies of a document, material, and other information created, produced, or obtained by or disclosed to the commissioner or any other person in the course of an examination made under Subsection 31A-17-514(6), except that if an examination report or other material prepared in connection with an examination made under Sections 31A-2-203 through 31A-2-205 is not held as private and confidential information under Sections 31A-2-203 through 31A-2-205, an examination report or other material prepared in connection with an examination made under Subsection 31A-17-514(6) may not be confidential information to the same extent as if the examination report or other material had been prepared under Sections 31A-2-203 through 31A-2-205; (c) a report, document, material, or other information developed by a company in support of, or in connection with, an annual certification by the company under Subsection 31A-17-515(2)(b) evaluating the effectiveness of the company's internal controls with respect to a principle-based valuation and any other document, material, and other information, including working papers, and copies of the document, material, and other information, created, produced, or obtained by or disclosed to the commissioner or any other person in connection with such reports, documents, materials, and other information; (d) any principle-based valuation report developed under Subsection 31A-17-515(2)(c) and any other document, material, and other information, including working papers, and copies of the document, material, and other information, created, produced, or obtained by or disclosed to the commissioner or any other person in connection with such report; and (e) any document, material, data, and other information submitted by a company under Section 31A-17-516, collectively, "experience data," and any other document, material, data, or other information, including working papers, and copies of the document, material, data, and information created or produced in connection with such experience data, in each case that include any potentially company-identifying or personally identifiable information, that is provided to or obtained by the commissioner, together with any "experience data," the "experience materials," and any other document, material, data, and other information, including working papers, and copies of the document, material, data, and other information created, produced, or obtained by or disclosed to the commissioner or any other person in connection with such experience materials. (2) (a) Except as provided in this section, a company's confidential information is confidential, not public records, not open to public inspection, and not subject to Title 63G, Chapter 2, Government Records Access and Management Act. (b) The commissioner is authorized to use the confidential information in the furtherance of any regulatory or legal action brought against the company as a part of the commissioner's official duties. (c) In order to assist in the performance of the commissioner's duties, the commissioner may share confidential information: (i) with other state, federal, and international regulatory agencies and with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and its affiliates and subsidiaries; (ii) in the case of confidential information specified in Subsections (1)(a) and (1)(d) only, with the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline or its successor, upon request, stating that the confidential information is required for the purpose of professional disciplinary proceedings and with state, federal, and international law enforcement officials; and (iii) in the case of Subsections (2)(c)(i) and (ii), provided that the recipient agrees, and has the legal authority to agree, to maintain the confidentiality of a document, material, data, and other information in the same manner and to the same extent as required for the commissioner. (d) The commissioner may receive a document, material, data, and other information, including an otherwise confidential document, material, data, or information, from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and its affiliates and subsidiaries, from regulatory or law enforcement officials of other foreign or domestic jurisdictions and from the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline or its successor and shall maintain as confidential any document, material, data, or other information received with notice or the understanding that it is confidential or privileged under the laws of the jurisdiction that is the source of the document, material, or other information. (e) The commissioner may enter into agreements governing sharing and use of information consistent with this Subsection (2). (f) No waiver of an applicable privilege or claim of confidentiality in the confidential information shall occur as a result of disclosure to the commissioner under this section or as a result of sharing as authorized in Subsection (2)(c). (g) A privilege established under the law of any state or jurisdiction that is substantially similar to the confidentiality established under this Subsection (2) shall be available and enforced in any proceeding in, and in any court of, this state. (h) In this section "regulatory agency," "law enforcement agency," and the "National Association of Insurance Commissioners" include their employees, agents, consultants, and contractors. (3) Notwithstanding Subsection (2), confidential information specified in Subsections (1)(a) and (1)(d): (a) may be subject to subpoena for the purpose of defending an action seeking damages from the appointed actuary who submitted the related memorandum in support of an opinion submitted under Section 31A-17-503 or principle-based valuation report developed under Subsection 31A-17-515(2)(c) by reason of an action required by this part or by rules made under this part; (b) may otherwise be released by the commissioner with the written consent of the company; and (c) once any portion of a memorandum in support of an opinion submitted under Section 31A-17-503 or a principle-based valuation report developed under Subsection 31A-17-515(2)(c) is cited by the company in its marketing or is publicly volunteered to or before a governmental agency other than a state insurance department or is released by the company to the news media, all portions of the memorandum or report shall no longer be confidential.