Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 8 Sec. 7043

  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Financial Regulation. See
  • Department: means the Department of Financial Regulation. See
  • Insurer: means any person who has done, purports to do, is doing or is licensed to do an insurance business, and is or has been subject to the authority of, or to liquidation, rehabilitation, reorganization, supervision, or conservation by, any insurance commissioner. See

§ 7043. Confidentiality of hearings

Administrative and judicial proceedings under sections 7041 and 7042 of this title, all records of the insurer, other documents, and all Department files and court records and papers, so far as they pertain to or are a part of the record of the proceedings, shall be and remain confidential except as is necessary to obtain compliance with orders of the Commissioner or the court, unless the Superior Court of Washington County, after privately hearing arguments from the parties in chambers, shall order otherwise; or unless the insurer requests that the matter be made public. Until a court order permitting the matter to be made public issues, or the issuer requests that the matter be made public, all papers filed with the Superior Court of Washington County shall be held in a confidential file. (Added 1991, No. 45, § 2, eff. May 29, 1991.)