H.B. 72                                                   VETOES

Sincerely,

Parris N. Glendening

Governor

House Bill No. 72

AN ACT concerning

Health Insurers and life Insurers - Disclosure of Results of Medical Examination

Information

FOR the purpose of requiring certain medical files on applicants compiled by health
insurers and life insurers to be made available for inspection to a physician of the
applicant's choice under certain circumstances: authorizing a certain insurer to
disclose certain medical information to a physician of an insured's choice under
certain circumstances; requiring a life insurer that denies a policy of life insurance
to an applicant to disclose to a certain physician the results of a certain medical
examination on request of the applicant; and generally relating to requirements for
health insurers and life insurers to disclose medical information.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Insurance
Section 4-402(a) and 4-403(b)(1)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1995 Volume and 1996 Supplement)

(As enacted by Chapter 36 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1995 and by
Chapter H.B. 3871 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1997)

BY adding to

Article - Insurance

Section 4-401 to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle 4. Disclosure Requirements for
Insurers" 4-404

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1995 Volume and 1996 Supplement)

(As enacted by Chapter 36 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1995 and by
Chapter          (H.B. 3871 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1997)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows;

Article — Insurance

SUBTITLE 4. DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS TOR INSURERS.
4-402.

(a) Medical files on applicants and claimants that are compiled by insurers under
policies of health insurance or life insurance shall be made available for inspection:

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