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NH Rev Stat § 400-A:15-h (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 400-A - Insurance Department|Section 400-A:15-h - General Provisions Regarding Company, Producer, and Adjuster Licensing.

    400-A:15-h General Provisions Regarding Company, Producer, and Adjuster Licensing. –||Unless otherwise provided in specific provisions of title XXXVII or in rules promulgated thereunder, when reviewing a license application submitted by a company, producer, or adjuster, the commissioner shall:||I. Within 30 days of receipt, examine the license application and notify the applicant of any apparent errors or omissions that render the application incomplete or request any additional information that the insurance department is permitted by law to require and that is deemed by the commissioner to be relevant to the review process.||II. Within 60 days after receipt of the application or after receipt of the additional information or corrections timely requested by the commissioner pursuant to paragraph I, the commissioner shall:||(a) Approve or deny the application, in whole or with restrictions; or||(b) Commence an adjudicative proceeding in accordance with RSA 541-A.||III. In the event that the commissioner returns one or more preliminary objections to the company, producer, or adjuster regarding a license application, the period in paragraph II shall not include the period during which the applicant is preparing a response.||IV. In the event that the commissioner is conducting an investigation of an applicant pursuant to RSA 400-A:16 of possible violations of insurance laws, the period in paragraph II shall not include the period during which the investigation is pending.||V. Upon written agreement of the applicant, the commissioner may extend any of the time periods for review provided for in this section.||VI. Wherever the general time limits prescribed by this section differ from specific time limits provided for by other provisions of title XXXVII or in rules promulgated thereunder, the specific time limits provided for by such other provisions shall control.||VII. If the commissioner fails to take action on a license application governed by this section within the time limits prescribed in this section, the application shall be deemed approved. If at any time after a license application has been deemed approved under this paragraph, the commissioner finds that the applicant does not meet standards for licensure, the commissioner may, after notice and hearing, order the revocation, suspension, or restriction of the license.||VIII. RSA 541-A:29 and RSA 541-A:29-a shall not apply to company, producer, or adjuster license applications under title XXXVII.|||Source. 2018, 279:22, eff. Jan. 1, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 400-A:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 400-A - Insurance Department|Section 400-A:17 - Hearings.

    400-A:17 Hearings. –||I. The commissioner may hold hearings for any purpose within the scope of this title as he may deem advisable.||II. He shall hold a hearing:||(a) if required by any provision of this title,||(b) or upon written application for a hearing by a person aggrieved by any act or impending act, or by any report, rule, regulation, or order of the commissioner (other than an order for the holding of a hearing, or order on a hearing, or pursuant to such order, of which hearing such person had notice).||III. Any such application must be filed with the commissioner within 30 days after such person knew or reasonably should have known of such act, impending act, failure, report, rule, regulation, or order, unless a different period is provided for by other applicable law, and in which case such other law shall govern. The application shall briefly state the respects in which the applicant is so aggrieved, together with the ground to be relied upon for the relief to be demanded at the hearing. The commissioner may require that the application be signed and sworn to by a person competent to be a witness in civil courts.||IV. If the commissioner finds that the application is timely, made in good faith, and that the applicant would be so aggrieved if his grounds are established he shall hold a hearing within 30 days after the filing of the application, or within 30 days after the application has been sworn to, whichever is the later date, unless in either case the hearing is postponed by mutual consent.||V. Failure to hold the hearing upon application therefor of a person entitled thereto as hereinabove provided shall constitute a denial of the relief sought, and shall be the equivalent of a final order of the commissioner on hearing for the purpose of an appeal under RSA 400-A:24.||VI. Pending the hearing and decision thereon, the commissioner may suspend or postpone the effective date of his previous action.|||Source. 1971, 244:1, eff. Aug. 17, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 400-A:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 400-A - Insurance Department|Section 400-A:18 - Notice of Hearing.

    400-A:18 Notice of Hearing. –||I. Except where a longer period is expressly provided in this title, the commissioner shall give written notice of the hearing not less than 10 days in advance. The notice shall state the date, time, and place of the hearing and specify the matters to be considered thereat. If the persons to be given notice are not specified in provision pursuant to which the hearing is held, the commissioner shall give such notice to all persons whose pecuniary interest, to the commissioner's knowledge or belief, are to be directly and immediately affected by the hearing. Notice of the hearing may be waived, and the hearing held at a time mutually fixed by the commissioner and the parties.||II. If any such hearing is to be held for consideration of rules and regulations of the commissioner, or of other matters which, under paragraph I above, would otherwise require separate notices to more than 30 persons, in lieu of other notice, the commissioner may give notice of the hearing by publication thereof in a newspaper of general circulation in this state, at least once each week during the 2 weeks immediately preceding the week in which the hearing is to be held; except, that the commissioner shall mail such notice to all persons who have requested the same in writing in advance and have paid to the commissioner the reasonable amount fixed by him to cover the cost thereof. All such notices, other than published notices, shall be given as provided in RSA 400-A:14.|||Source. 1971, 244:1, eff. Aug. 17, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 400-A:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 400-A - Insurance Department|Section 400-A:19 - Conduct of Hearing.

    400-A:19 Conduct of Hearing. –||I. The commissioner may hold a hearing in Concord or any other place of convenience to parties and witnesses, as the commissioner determines. The commissioner or his designee shall preside at the hearing, and shall expedite the hearing and all procedures involved therein.||II. Any party to the hearing shall have the right to appear in person and by counsel, to be present during the giving of all evidence, to have a reasonable opportunity to inspect all documentary and other evidence and to examine and cross-examine witnesses, to present evidence in support of his interest and to have subpoenas issued by the commissioner to compel attendance of witnesses and production of evidence in his behalf. Testimony may be taken orally or by deposition, and any party shall have such right of introducing evidence by interrogatories or deposition as may obtain in the superior court.||III. Upon good cause shown, the commissioner shall permit to become a party to the hearing by intervention, if timely, such persons, not original parties thereto, whose interests are affected by the commissioner's order made upon the hearing.||IV. Formal rules of pleading or of evidence need not be observed at any hearing.||V. The hearing shall be public, unless the commissioner or hearing officer determines that a private hearing would be in the public interest, in which case and only with the consent of all parties to the hearing, the hearing shall be private.||VI. The commissioner or his hearing officer may cause a complete record to be made of the hearing proceedings by a competent reporter or by electronic recording, and if transcribed, such record shall be made a part of the commissioner's record of hearing. In the event of an appeal from any order of the commissioner issued pursuant to Title XXXVII, if a record of the proceedings is available a transcript shall be made, and expenses of transcription shall be paid by the party making the appeal at the rate charged for transcripts of proceedings in the superior court at the time the appeal is made. Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit any party to a hearing held pursuant to Title XXXVII from receiving at any time, upon request and upon payment of expenses, a transcript of the hearing, if a record was made.||VII. The validity of any hearing held in accordance with the notice thereof, or waiver of notice, shall not be affected by the failure of any person to attend or remain in attendance.|||Source. 1971, 244:1. 1975, 147:1, eff. July 25, 1975.|
NH Rev Stat § 400-A:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 400-A - Insurance Department|Section 400-A:20 - Witnesses and Documentary Evidence.

    400-A:20 Witnesses and Documentary Evidence. –||I. As to the subject of any examination, investigation or hearing being conducted by him, the commissioner may subpoena witnesses and administer oaths or affirmations and examine any individual under oath, or take depositions; and by subpoena duces tecum may require the production of documentary and other evidence. Any delegation by the commissioner of power of subpoena shall be in writing.||II. Every person subpoenaed to appear at any such hearing, examination, or investigation shall obey the subpoena, testify truthfully, conduct himself with decorum, and in no way obstruct the proceeding or purpose thereof.||III. Witnesses shall be entitled to the same fees and allowances as witnesses in the superior court; except that no insurer, agent, broker, or other person subject to this title who is a subject of such proceeding, and no officer, director, or employee of any of the foregoing, shall be entitled to witness or mileage fees. No person shall be excused from attending and testifying in obedience to a subpoena on the ground that the proper witness fee was not tendered or paid, unless the witness shall have demanded such payment as a condition precedent to attending the hearing, examination, or investigation and unless such demand shall not have been complied with.||IV. Any individual knowingly testifying falsely under oath or making a false affirmation, as to any matter material to any such examination, investigation or hearing, shall upon conviction thereof be guilty of perjury.|||Source. 1971, 244:1, eff. Aug. 17, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 400-A:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 400-A - Insurance Department|Section 400-A:21 - Witnesses; Disciplinary Proceedings.

    400-A:21 Witnesses;  Disciplinary Proceedings. –||I. If any individual without reasonable cause fails to appear when summoned as a witness, or refuses to answer a lawful and pertinent question, or refuses to produce documentary evidence when directed to do so by the commissioner or deports himself in a disrespectful or disorderly manner at the inquiry, or obstructs the proceedings by any means, whether or not in the presence of the commissioner or his designee, he is guilty of contempt and may be dealt with as provided in RSA 400-A:21, II.||II. The commissioner or his designee, as the case may be, may file a complaint in the superior court, setting forth under oath the facts constituting the contempt and requesting an order returnable in not less than 2 nor more than 5 days, directing the alleged contemner to show cause before the court, why he should not be punished for contempt. Upon the return of such order, the court shall examine the alleged contemner under oath, and the alleged contemner shall have an opportunity to be heard. If the court determines that the respondent has committed any alleged contempt, the court shall punish the offender as if the contempt had occurred in an action arising in or pending in such court. Provided however, the contemner shall have a period of 10 days from the determination of the superior court within which to purge himself of contempt and thereby avoid the sanctions imposed.|||Source. 1971, 244:1, eff. Aug. 17, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 400-A:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 400-A - Insurance Department|Section 400-A:22 - Witnesses; Immunity From Prosecution.

    400-A:22 Witnesses;  Immunity From Prosecution. –||I. If any individual asks to be excused from attending or testifying or from producing any books, papers, records, contracts, correspondence, or other documents in connection with any examination, hearing, or investigation being conducted by the commissioner on the ground that the testimony or evidence required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture, and shall by the insurance commissioner be directed to give such testimony or produce such evidence, he must nonetheless comply with such direction, but he shall not thereafter be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may have so testified or produced evidence, and no testimony so given or evidence produced shall be received against him upon any criminal action, investigation, or proceeding; except, however, that no such individual so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution or punishment for any perjury committed by him in such testimony, and the testimony or evidence so given or produced shall be admissible against him upon any criminal action, investigation, or proceeding concerning perjury; provided further that no witness shall be compelled to testify where such testimony would create a reasonable possibility of penalty or sanction by a court, agency, or other body of competent jurisdiction, which penalty or sanction has not as of the hearing date (or the date of any appeal therefrom) been banned by operation of law or waived as to the witness.||II. Any such individual may execute, acknowledge and file in the office of the commissioner a statement expressly waiving such immunity or privilege in respect to any transaction, matter or thing specified in such statement, and thereupon the testimony of such individual or such evidence in relation to such transaction, matter or thing may be received or produced before any judge or justice, court, tribunal, grand jury, or otherwise, and if so received or produced, such individual shall not be entitled to any immunity or privileges on account of any testimony he may so give or evidence so produced.|||Source. 1971, 244:1, eff. Aug. 17, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 400-A:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 400-A - Insurance Department|Section 400-A:23 - Order on Hearing.

    400-A:23 Order on Hearing. –||I. In the conduct of hearings under this title and making his order thereon, the commissioner shall act in a quasi-judicial capacity.||II. Within 90 days after termination of a hearing, or of any rehearing thereof or reargument thereon, or within such other period as may be specified in this title as to particular proceedings, the commissioner shall make his order on hearing covering matters involved in such hearing, and give a copy of the order to each party to the hearing in the same manner as notice of the hearing was given to such party; except, that as to hearings held with respect to merger, consolidation, bulk reinsurance, conversion, affiliation, or change of control of a licensed insurer as provided in RSA 401-B and RSA 403-A, where notice of the hearing was given to all who are stockholders or policyholders, or both, of an insurer involved, the commissioner is required to give a copy of the order on hearing to the corporation and insurer parties, to intervening parties, to a reasonable number of such stockholders or policyholders as representative of the class, and to other parties only upon written request of such parties.||(a) The order shall contain:||(1) A concise statement of facts found by the commissioner upon the evidence adduced at the hearing;||(2) A concise statement of the commissioner's conclusions from the facts so found;||(3) His order, and the effective date thereof; and||(4) Citation of the provisions of this title upon which the order is based; but failure to so designate a particular provision shall not deprive the commissioner of the right thereafter to rely thereupon.||(b) The order may affirm, modify, or rescind action theretofore taken or may constitute taking of new action within the scope of the notice of hearing.|||Source. 1971, 244:1, eff. Aug. 17, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 400-A:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 400-A - Insurance Department|Section 400-A:24 - Appeal From the Commissioner.

    400-A:24 Appeal From the Commissioner. –||I. An appeal from the commissioner shall be taken only from an order on hearing, or as to a matter on which the commissioner has refused or failed to hold a hearing after application therefor under RSA 400-A:17, or as to a matter as to which the commissioner has failed to make his order on hearing as required by RSA 400-A:23.||II. Any appeal shall be in accordance with RSA 541.|||Source. 1971, 244:1, eff. Aug. 17, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 400-A:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 400-A - Insurance Department|Section 400-A:25 - Records; Inspection; Destruction.

    400-A:25 Records;  Inspection;  Destruction. –||I. Unless otherwise provided by law, all records and documents of the insurance department are subject to public inspection pursuant to the right to know law, RSA 91-A. Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 91-A, the commissioner may determine by order that it is in the public interest to make public additional records and documents or to hold certain records and documents confidential within the insurance department.||II. Except as otherwise provided by law, all records and documents of the department are subject to subpoena by a court of competent jurisdiction.||III. The commissioner may destroy at the end of 3 years from the date of filing any records determined to be no longer of any value to the state. The commissioner may destroy at an earlier date such records of the department which are readily available to the commissioner in an unaltered form from any other state or federal agency or from any licensed insurance company.|||Source. 1971, 244:1. 1983, 473:1. 2008, 67:2, eff. July 20, 2008. 2021, 56:1, eff. July 24, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 400-A:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 400-A - Insurance Department|Section 400-A:26 - Annual Report.

    400-A:26 Annual Report. –||On or before November 1 in each year, the commissioner shall make a written report to the governor and council showing with respect to the preceding calendar year the receipts and expenses of the department for the year and such recommendations as he deems advisable.|||Source. 1971, 244:1, eff. Aug. 17, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 400-A:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 400-A - Insurance Department|Section 400-A:27 - Publications.

    400-A:27 Publications. –||I. The commissioner may have the annual report, examination reports, directory of authorized insurers, directory of licensed insurance representatives, license examination material, insurance laws, related laws and regulations, and other publications relating to insurance prepared under his administration, published in pamphlet form from time to time and may affix a reasonable price to each copy to cover the price of printing, handling, and postage.||II. The commissioner may furnish free copies of the publications prepared under paragraph I to public officials and libraries in the state and elsewhere. The cost of free distribution shall be charged upon available funds and the appropriation for the insurance department.|||Source. 1971, 244:1. 1987, 411:7, eff. May 26, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 400-A:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 400-A - Insurance Department|Section 400-A:28 - Interstate Cooperation.

    400-A:28 Interstate Cooperation. –||The commissioner and his staff shall maintain close relations with the commissioners of other states and shall actively participate in the activities and affairs of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and other organizations so far as it will, in his judgment, enhance the purposes of the insurance laws. The actual and necessary travel and related expenses incurred by the commissioner and members of his staff in attending meetings of said associations, their committees, subcommittees, hearings, and other official activities, as well as the general expenses of participation in such associations shall be a charge on available funds and the appropriation of the insurance department.|||Source. 1971, 244:1. 1987, 411:8, eff. May 26, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 400-A:29-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 400-A - Insurance Department|Section 400-A:29-a - Fees for Continuing Education Course Submissions; Special Fund Established.

    400-A:29-a Fees for Continuing Education Course Submissions;  Special Fund Established. –||I. The commissioner may impose and collect reasonable application fees as provided in RSA 400-A:29, XXIII(a) and (b) from sponsoring organizations for submissions of continuing education courses to meet educational requirements established by rule for producers, consultants, and adjusters.||II. The fees collected by the commissioner under paragraph I shall be deposited in the general fund.||III. Members of the respective continuing education advisory councils shall be reimbursed for all actual travel. The commissioner shall pay the expenses of compensating the continuing education advisory council within the limits of appropriations made in the operating budget for this purpose.|||Source. 1988, 105:1. 2010, 13:2, eff. July 1, 2010. 2019, 134:22, eff. June 25, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 400-A:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 400-A - Insurance Department|Section 400-A:30 - Accounts.

    400-A:30 Accounts. –||The commissioner shall keep a correct account of all fees and moneys received by him by virtue of his office, and shall pay the same over to the treasurer of the state forthwith.|||Source. 1971, 244:1, eff. Aug. 17, 1971.|