Tennessee Code 56-35-117 – Exchange of information – Consultation and cooperation – Limitations
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-35-117
- Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance, and includes all deputies legally appointed and constituted to act in the commissioner's place and stead by other applicable law of the state. See Tennessee Code 56-35-102
- Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
In order to further more equitable establishment and adjustment of rates, including risk rates, or premiums and forms of contracts, policies and guarantees, the commissioner, every insurer and rating organization may exchange information and experience data with each other, and with the insurance supervisory officers and insurers in other states and with national organizations and associations and may consult and cooperate with them in respect to rates, including risk rates, or premiums and forms of contracts, policies and guarantees; and an insurer or rating organization licensed under this chapter may act in concert with each other and with others with respect to any and all matters pertaining to the making of rates, rating plans, or rating systems, or the preparation of forms of policies, contracts, or guarantees of title, underwriting rules, surveys and investigations, or the furnishing of loss and expense statistics or other information and data, or carrying on research.