(a) An insurer failing without just cause to timely file the own risk and solvency assessment summary report under this subchapter 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 Insurance Commissioner, and the penalty so recovered shall be paid into the General Revenue Fund Account of the State Apportionment Fund.
(b) The maximum penalty under this section is ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
(c) The commissioner may reduce the penalty under this section if the insurer demonstrates to the commissioner that the imposition of the penalty would constitute a financial hardship to the insurer.