California Code of Regulations › Title 10 - Investment › Chapter 5 - Insurance Commissioner › Subchapter 4.9 - Rules of Practice and Procedure for Rate Proceedings › Article 14 - Intervenor's and Participant's Fees and Expenses › Section 2662.3 - Request for Award

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) A
				  petitioner, intervenor or participant whose Petition to Intervene or
				  Participate has been granted and who has been found eligible to seek
				  compensation may submit to the Public Advisor, within 30 days after the service
				  of the order, decision, regulation or other action of the Commissioner in the
				  proceeding for which intervention was sought, or at the requesting
				  petitioner's, intervenor's or participant's option, within 30 days after the
				  conclusion of the entire proceeding, a request for an award of compensation. A
				  petitioner, intervenor or participant requesting that any award ordered be made
				  payable to a specific person or entity, other than the petitioner, intervenor
				  or participant, that represented or advocated on behalf of the intervenor or
				  participant during the proceeding shall include verified authorization to that
				  effect in the request.
(b) The
				  request shall be verified and shall be in compliance with sections
				  2652.1-2652.4 of this subchapter
				  and shall include, at a minimum:
(1) a
				  detailed description of services and expenditures;
(2) legible time and/or billing records,
				  created as soon as possible after the work was performed, which show the date
				  and the exact amount of time spent on each specific task; and
(3) a description of the petitioner's,
				  intervenor's or participant's substantial contribution citing to the record,
				  including, but not limited to, documents such as: declarations by advocates
				  and/or witnesses, written or oral comments of the petitioner or intervenor or
				  its witnesses regarding a rate application provided to the Department,
				  correspondence with the parties, stipulations or settlement agreements
				  regarding the outcome or material issues in the proceeding, and decision or
				  order by the Department or Commissioner concerning a petition for hearing or
				  rate or class plan application issued without a formal hearing, transcripts,
				  proposed decisions of the Administrative Law Judge and orders demonstrating
				  that a substantial contribution was made for the purpose of complying with
				  section 2661.1(j).
				  Notwithstanding section
				  2656.4, any confidential
				  correspondence, documents, or declarations referencing confidential
				  information, including but not limited to confidential settlement
				  communications, may be submitted to the Public Advisor with a request for an
				  award of compensation. Any such confidential material submitted to the Public
				  Advisor will retain its confidential status. Nothing in this subsection shall
				  require disclosure of privileged information.
The phrase "exact amount of time spent" as used in this
					 subdivision refers either to five (5) minute or tenth (10th) of an hour
					 increments.