BILL NUMBER: SB 277	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Vargas

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2011

   An act to amend Section 932 of the Insurance Code, relating to
insurance.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 277, as introduced, Vargas. Insurance: regulation of insurers.
   Existing law requires each domestic, foreign, and alien insurer
doing business in this state to annually, on or before the first day
of March of each year, file with the National Association of
Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) a copy of its annual statement
convention blank, along with any additional filings as prescribed by
the Insurance Commissioner for the preceding year. Existing law
provides that, in the absence of actual malice, specified members of
the NAIC, its employees, and all others charged with the
responsibility of collecting, reviewing, analyzing, and disseminating
the information developed from the filing of the annual statement
convention blanks are acting as agents of the commissioner under the
authority of this article and are not subject to civil liability for
libel, slander, or any other cause of action by virtue of their
collection, review, and analysis or dissemination of the data and
information collected from the required filings required.
   This bill would add NAIC working groups and subgroups to the above
group of persons with immunity from civil liability.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 932 of the Insurance Code is amended to read:
   932.  In the absence of actual malice, members of the National
Association of Insurance Commissioners, their duly authorized
committees, subcommittees, and task forces, their delegates, National
Association of Insurance Commissioners' employees,  working
groups, subgroups,  and all others charged with the
responsibility of collecting, reviewing, analyzing, and disseminating
the information developed from the filing of the annual statement
convention blanks shall be acting as agents of the commissioner under
the authority of this article and shall not be subject to civil
liability for libel, slander, or any other cause of action by virtue
of their collection, review, and analysis or dissemination of the
data and information collected from the filings required herein.