Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 221.13 - Conduct of hearings in summary proceedings(a) The Commonwealth Court may hold all hearings in summary proceedings and judicial review thereof privately in chambers, and shall do so on request of the insurer proceeded against.(b) In all summary proceedings and judicial reviews thereof, all records of the insurer, other documents, and all Insurance Department files and court records and papers, so far as they pertain to or are a part of the record of the summary proceedings, shall be and remain confidential except as is necessary to obtain compliance therewith, unless and until the Commonwealth Court, after hearing arguments from the parties in chambers, shall order otherwise, or unless the insurer requests that the matter be made public. Until such court order, all papers filed with the clerk of the Commonwealth Court shall be held by him in a confidential file.(c) Any person having possession or custody of and refusing to deliver any of the property, books, accounts, documents or other records of or relating to an insurer against which a seizure order or a summary order has been issued by the commissioner or by the Commonwealth Court, may be fined not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or sentenced to undergo imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.1921, May 17, P.L. 789, art. V, § 513, added 1977, Dec. 14, P.L. 280, No. 92, § 2, imd. effective.