West Virginia Code
Article 2. Insurance Commissioner
§33-2-5. Witness Fees

No person shall be excused from attending and testifying in obedience to a subpoena issued hereunder on the ground of failure of tender or payment of a witness fee or mileage fee unless the witness makes demand for such payment as a condition precedent to the giving of testimony or the production of documents required by the subpoena, and unless such payment is not thereupon made. No insurer, agent, broker, solicitor or other person subject to the provisions of this chapter whose conduct, condition or practices are being investigated, and no officer, director or employee of any such person, shall be entitled to witness or mileage fees. In the event that witness or mileage fees are demanded and paid, the amount of same shall be determined as $10 for each day of attendance and 10¢ per mile for each mile necessarily traveled to the place of attendance, and the same for returning. The sum to which a witness is entitled shall be paid out of the treasury in any case in which the attendance is for the commissioner. In all other cases, it shall be paid by the person at whose instance the summons is issued.

Structure West Virginia Code

West Virginia Code

Chapter 33. Insurance

Article 2. Insurance Commissioner

§33-2-1. Office Continued; Appointment, Qualifications and Term

§33-2-2. Compensation and Expenses of Commissioner and Employees; Location of Office

§33-2-3. Duties of the Commissioner; Employment of Legal Counsel

§33-2-3a. Administrative Investigations

§33-2-4. Authority to Take Depositions, Subpoena Witnesses, etc.

§33-2-5. Witness Fees

§33-2-6. Service of Subpoena; Compelling Compliance

§33-2-7. Immunity of Witness

§33-2-8. Insured to Produce Records Upon Request

§33-2-9. Examination of Insurers, Agents, Brokers and Solicitors; Access to Books, Records, etc.

§33-2-9a. Imposing a One-Time Assessment on All Insurance Carriers

§33-2-10. Rules and Regulations

§33-2-10a. Insurance Emergencies -- Suspension of Deadlines

§33-2-11. Enforcement of Orders; Revocation of Licenses; Court Action

§33-2-12. Notice

§33-2-13. Hearings

§33-2-14. Judicial Review

§33-2-15. Annual Report by Commissioner

§33-2-15a. Annual Flood Insurance Communication to Public Entities by Commissioner

§33-2-15b. Reports to the Legislature

§33-2-15c. Reports to the Legislature

§33-2-15d. Report to the Legislature

§33-2-16. Office of Consumer Advocacy Established; Director of Consumer Advocacy; Promulgation of Rules

§33-2-17. Office of Consumer Advocacy

§33-2-18. Funding

§33-2-19. Confidentiality of Information

§33-2-20. Authority of Commissioner to Allow Withdrawal of Insurance Carriers From Doing Business in the State

§33-2-21. Authority of Insurance Commissioner to Regulate Workers' Compensation Industry; Authority of Insurance Commissioner to Administer Chapter Twenty-Three of the Code of West Virginia

§33-2-21a. State Agency Workers' Compensation Programs

§33-2-22. Authority of Insurance Commissioner Regarding Employers in Default to Workers' Compensation Funds; Injunctions Against Defaulting Employers

§33-2-23. Transfer of Assets of the State Office of the National Flood Insurance Program

§33-2-24. Authority of Insurance Commissioner to Enforce No Surprises Act; Administrative Penalties; Injunctive Relief; Regulatory Assistance of Other Agencies; Rulemaking; Effective Date