645.07 Cooperation of officers and employees.
(1) Duty to cooperate. Any officer, manager, trustee or general agent of any insurer, any attorney representing an insurer on any matter, and any other person with executive authority over or in charge of any segment of the insurer's affairs shall cooperate with the commissioner in any proceeding under this chapter or any investigation preliminary or incidental to the proceeding. “To cooperate" includes:
(a) To reply promptly in writing to any inquiry from the commissioner requesting a reply; and
(b) To make available and deliver to the commissioner any books, accounts, documents or other records, or information or property of or pertaining to the insurer and in the person's possession, custody or control.
(2) Duty not to obstruct. No person may obstruct or interfere with the commissioner in the conduct of any delinquency proceeding or any investigation preliminary or incidental thereto.
(3) Right to defend. This section does not make it illegal to resist by legal proceedings the petition for liquidation or other delinquency proceedings, or other orders.
(4) Sanction. Any person included within sub. (1) who fails to cooperate with the commissioner, or any person who obstructs or interferes with the commissioner in the conduct of any delinquency proceeding or any investigation preliminary or incidental thereto, is subject to s. 601.64.
History: 1979 c. 93; 1979 c. 102 ss. 196, 236 (15); 1979 c. 177.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 645 - Insurers rehabilitation and liquidation.
645.01 - Short title, construction and purpose.
645.035 - Bankruptcy petition is prohibited.
645.04 - Jurisdiction and venue.
645.05 - Injunctions and orders.
645.06 - Costs and expenses of litigation.
645.07 - Cooperation of officers and employees.
645.09 - Commissioner's reports.
645.10 - Continuation of delinquency proceedings.
645.11 - Effect of amendments of this chapter.
645.21 - Commissioner's summary orders.
645.22 - Court's seizure order.
645.23 - Commissioner's seizure order.
645.24 - Conduct of hearings in summary proceedings.
645.31 - Grounds for rehabilitation.
645.32 - Rehabilitation orders.
645.33 - Powers and duties of the rehabilitator.
645.34 - Actions by and against rehabilitator.
645.35 - Termination of rehabilitation.
645.41 - Grounds for liquidation.
645.43 - Continuance of coverage.
645.44 - Dissolution of insurer.
645.45 - Federal receivership.
645.46 - Powers of liquidator.
645.47 - Notice to creditors and others.
645.49 - Actions by and against liquidator.
645.51 - Collection and list of assets.
645.52 - Fraudulent transfers prior to petition.
645.53 - Fraudulent transfers after petition.
645.54 - Voidable preferences and liens.
645.55 - Claims of holders of void or voidable rights.
645.56 - Setoffs and counterclaims.
645.58 - Reinsurer's liability; arbitration clauses.
645.59 - Uncollected, unearned premiums.
645.60 - Applicability of claims settlement provisions to loss claims.
645.64 - Special provisions for 3rd-party claims.
645.67 - Secured creditors' claims.
645.675 - Qualified financial contracts.
645.68 - Order of distribution.
645.69 - Claims for certain health care costs.
645.71 - Liquidator's recommendations to the court.
645.72 - Distribution of assets.
645.73 - Unclaimed and withheld funds.
645.74 - Termination of proceedings.
645.75 - Reopening liquidation.
645.76 - Disposition of records during and after termination of liquidation.
645.77 - External audit of receiver's books.
645.81 - Conservation of property of foreign or alien insurers found in this state.
645.82 - Liquidation of property of foreign or alien insurers found in this state.
645.83 - Foreign domiciliary receivers in other states.
645.84 - Ancillary formal proceedings.
645.85 - Ancillary summary proceedings.
645.86 - Claims of nonresidents against insurers domiciled in this state.
645.87 - Claims of residents against insurers domiciled in reciprocal states.
645.88 - Attachment, garnishment and levy of execution.