Sec. 38a-208. (Formerly Sec. 33-166). Rates and contracts to be approved.
Sec. 38a-208. (Formerly Sec. 33-166). Rates and contracts to be approved. No
such corporation shall enter into any contract with subscribers unless and until it has
filed with the Insurance Commissioner a full schedule of the rates to be paid by the
subscribers and has obtained said commissioner's approval thereof. The commissioner
may refuse such approval if he finds such rates to be excessive, inadequate or discriminatory. No hospital service corporation shall enter into any contract with subscribers unless
and until it has filed with the Insurance Commissioner a copy of such contract, including
all riders and endorsements thereof, and until said commissioner's approval thereof has
been obtained. The Insurance Commissioner shall, within a reasonable time after the
filing of any such form, notify such corporation either of his approval or disapproval
thereof.
(1949 Rev., S. 5272; P.A. 77-614, S. 163, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 218, 348.)
History: P.A. 77-614 made insurance department a division within the department of business regulation with commissioner as its head, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 restored insurance division as independent department with
commissioner as its head and abolished department of business regulation; Sec. 33-166 transferred to Sec. 38a-208 in 1991.
Annotation to former section 33-166:
Insurance commissioner's judgment modifying a filed schedule of rates of Blue Cross services is affirmed as record
contains sufficient evidence to support same. 31 CS 257.