Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-11-209

  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-1-102
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105

Any insurer or health maintenance organization failing, without just cause, to timely file the ORSA Summary Report as required in this part shall be required, after notice and hearing, to pay a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100) for each day’s delay, to be recovered by the commissioner and the penalty so recovered shall be paid into the general revenue fund of this state. The maximum penalty under this section is ten thousand dollars ($10,000). The commissioner may reduce the penalty if the insurer or health maintenance organization demonstrates to the commissioner that the imposition of the penalty would constitute a financial hardship to the insurer or health maintenance organization.