A. Any insurer or advisory organization aggrieved by any order or decision of the Insurance Commissioner, made without a hearing, may, within thirty (30) days after notice of the order to the insurer or organization, make written request to the Commissioner for a hearing thereon. The Commissioner shall hear such party or parties within twenty (20) days after receipt of such request and shall give not less than ten (10) days' written notice of the time and place of the hearing. Within fifteen (15) days after such hearing, the Commissioner shall affirm, reverse or modify the previous action of the Commissioner, specifying its reasons therefor. Pending such hearing and decision thereon, the Commissioner may suspend or postpone the effective date of the previous action of the Commissioner.
B. Nothing contained in this act shall require the observance at any hearing, of formal rules of pleading or evidence.
C. Except as otherwise provided in this act, any order or decision of the Commissioner made pursuant to this act shall be subject to review by appeal to the Supreme Court of Oklahoma at the instance of any party in interest. Such party in interest may appeal from such order or decision by filing with the Clerk of the Supreme Court, within thirty (30) days from the date of such order or decision, a petition in error with a copy of the order or decision appealed from. The time limit prescribed herein for filing the petition in error may not be extended. The Supreme Court shall prescribe, by rule, the manner in which the record of the proceedings, sought to be reviewed, shall be perfected and the time for its completion. The appeal shall not stay the execution of any order or decision of the Commissioner unless the Supreme Court shall, for cause shown, order that said decision or order be stayed pending such appeal, in which event the Court shall determine the terms and conditions upon which the same shall be stayed; provided, premiums collected prior to the effective date of the order of the Court imposing a stay shall be retained by the insurer unless the Court finds that such premiums were obtained by fraud, or unless otherwise ordered by the Court.
The Court may, in disposing of the issue before it, determine all issues of law and fact, and may modify, affirm or reverse the order or decisions of the Commissioner in whole or in part.
Added by Laws 1980, c. 322, § 31, eff. Jan. 1, 1981. Amended by Laws 1988, c. 28, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1988; Laws 2006, c. 264, § 25, eff. July 1, 2006.