PRINTER'S NO. 1747
No. 1449 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY DeLUCA, BARRAR, BEBKO-JONES, BELARDI, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, CREIGHTON, CURRY, DeWEESE, FABRIZIO, FAIRCHILD, FREEMAN, GEORGE, GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HARPER, HENNESSEY, HERSHEY, JAMES, JOSEPHS, KENNEY, KOTIK, LaGROTTA, LEDERER, McGEEHAN, McILHATTAN, MUNDY, O'NEILL, PALLONE, PISTELLA, PRESTON, READSHAW, REICHLEY, ROONEY, SATHER, SCHRODER, SOLOBAY, TANGRETTI, J. TAYLOR, THOMAS, TIGUE, WALKO, WATERS, WHEATLEY, YOUNGBLOOD AND STABACK, APRIL 28, 2005
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE, APRIL 28, 2005
AN ACT 1 Amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), entitled "An 2 act relating to insurance; amending, revising, and 3 consolidating the law providing for the incorporation of 4 insurance companies, and the regulation, supervision, and 5 protection of home and foreign insurance companies, Lloyds 6 associations, reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, and 7 fire insurance rating bureaus, and the regulation and 8 supervision of insurance carried by such companies, 9 associations, and exchanges, including insurance carried by 10 the State Workmen's Insurance Fund; providing penalties; and 11 repealing existing laws," providing for certain disclosure to 12 property or casualty insurance policyholders. 13 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 14 hereby enacts as follows: 15 Section 1. The act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known 16 as The Insurance Company Law of 1921, is amended by adding a 17 section to read: 18 Section 626.1. CLUE Report Information.--(a) A property or 19 casualty insurer shall disclose to each policyholder information 20 about CLUE reports, how the policyholder may obtain a copy of
1 the policyholder's individual CLUE report and dispute inaccurate 2 or incomplete information in the report. An insurance producer 3 or insurer may not report policyholder information to CLUE 4 unless the information is in relation to a filed claim. 5 (b) The term "CLUE," as used in this section, means the 6 Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange. The term "CLUE 7 report," as used in this section, means a report issued by the 8 Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange that provides a claims 9 history of an insured or a property and includes personal 10 information about the insured. The term "CLUE report" includes a 11 report issued by any other entity for similar purposes. 12 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. D20L40BIL/20050H1449B1747 - 2 -