(1) Every insurance company doing business in this state, on or before the first day of March in each year, shall submit to the commissioner a report, signed and certified by its chief officers, of its condition on the preceding thirty-first day of December, which shall include a detailed statement of assets and liabilities, the amount and character of its business transacted, and moneys received and expended during the year, and any further details of expenditures, and such other information, to be included in the report or supplementary thereto, as the commissioner deems necessary. A synopsis of such statement, together with the commissioner's certificate of authority to transact business in this state, shall be published in some newspaper of general circulation, published at the state capital, for at least four insertions. Such publication shall be made within thirty days after such certificate of authority is issued, and a copy of the paper containing such publication shall be filed in the office of the commissioner. The commissioner shall revoke and refuse to reissue the certificate of authority of any insurance company failing or refusing to furnish the reports or other information requested by the commissioner as provided in this section. The report required pursuant to this subsection (1) may be filed in an electronic format.
Repealed.
If any entity regulated by the division of insurance fails to file any other documentrequired by law or rules and regulations to be filed with the division of insurance or fails to maintain complaint records as required by law, the commissioner may assess a penalty not to exceed five hundred dollars for an initial violation and a penalty not to exceed five thousand dollars for any subsequent failure to comply with any such filing requirement or requirement to maintain records. The commissioner, by rule and regulation, may establish a schedule for the assessment of penalties as authorized in this subsection (3) based upon the frequency and severity of noncompliance.
Source: L. 13: p. 340, § 24. C.L. § 2494. CSA: C. 87, § 22. CRS 53: § 72-1-35. C.R.S. 1963: § 72-1-35. L. 92: Entire section amended, p. 1536, § 27, effective May 20. L. 2001: (2) amended, p. 1051, § 35, effective July 1. L. 2004: (1) amended, p. 1060, § 6, effective July 1. L. 2013: (2) amended, (HB 13-1115), ch. 338, p. 1970, § 3, effective May 28.
Editor's note: Subsection (2)(b) provided for the repeal of subsection (2), effective March 31, 2015. (See L. 2013, p. 1970.)
Cross references: For financial statements, see § 10-3-208; for nondisclosure of reports during periods of supervision or conservatorship, see § 10-3-414.