(a) Reports and financial plans of action that are made confidential under ORS 731.752; and
(b) Instructions adopted and amended by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners for use by insurers and health care service contractors in preparing reports and financial plans of action referred to in paragraph (a) of this subsection.
(2) The director may not use reports, financial plans of action and instructions referred to in subsection (1) of this section for ratemaking, for reviewing rate filings or in a rate proceeding related thereto, or to calculate or derive any elements of an appropriate premium level or rate of return for any line of insurance that an insurer, a health care service contractor or an affiliate is authorized to transact. Such reports and financial plans of action also shall not be introduced as evidence in a rate proceeding.
(3) This section does not restrict the authority of the director to use information included in reports, financial plans or instructions referred to in subsection (1) of this section that is available from other sources. [1995 c.638 §5; 2001 c.318 §20]