The purposes of this article are to:
1. Establish standards for the collection, use, and disclosure of information gathered in connection with insurance transactions by insurance institutions, agents or insurance-support organizations;
2. Maintain a balance between the need for information by those conducting the business of insurance and the public's need for fairness in insurance information practices, including the need to minimize intrusiveness;
3. Establish a regulatory mechanism to enable natural persons to ascertain what information is being or has been collected about them in connection with insurance transactions and to have access to such information for the purpose of verifying or disputing its accuracy;
4. Limit the disclosure of information collected in connection with insurance transactions; and
5. Enable insurance applicants and policyholders to obtain the reasons for any adverse underwriting decision.
1981, c. 389, § 38.1-57.3; 1986, c. 562; 2020, c. 264.
Structure Code of Virginia
Chapter 6 - Insurance Information and Privacy Protection
§ 38.2-601. Application of article
§ 38.2-603. Pretext interviews
§ 38.2-604. Notice of information collection and disclosure practices
§ 38.2-604.1. Notice of financial information collection and disclosure practices
§ 38.2-605. Marketing and research surveys
§ 38.2-606. Content of disclosure authorization forms
§ 38.2-607. Investigative consumer reports
§ 38.2-608. Access to recorded personal information
§ 38.2-609. Correction, amendment, or deletion of recorded personal information
§ 38.2-611. Information concerning previous adverse underwriting decisions
§ 38.2-612. Bases for adverse underwriting decisions
§ 38.2-612.2. Protection of the Fair Credit Reporting Act
§ 38.2-613. Disclosure limitations and conditions
§ 38.2-613.1. Disclosure of agent's moratorium required
§ 38.2-614. Powers of Commission
§ 38.2-615. Hearings and procedures
§ 38.2-616. Service of process on insurance-support organizations
§ 38.2-617. Individual remedies
§ 38.2-618. Immunity of persons disclosing information
§ 38.2-619. Obtaining information under false pretenses
§ 38.2-622. Private cause of action; neither created nor curtailed
§ 38.2-623. Information security program
§ 38.2-624. Investigation of a cybersecurity event
§ 38.2-625. Notice to Commissioner
§ 38.2-626. Notice to consumers
§ 38.2-627. Powers and duties of the Commission; exclusive state standards