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Session Laws, 2004, Special Session
Volume 802, Page 31   View pdf image
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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                                Ch. 5

activities to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before a certain date;
altering certain penalty provisions for failing to file certain reports with the State
Board of Physician Quality Assurance; requiring the Maryland Insurance
Administration to prepare annually a certain comparison guide of medical
professional liability insurance premiums for health care providers that includes
certain information; requiring insurers that issue or deliver medical professional
liability insurance policies in the State to offer certain policies with certain
deductibles; requiring the Legislative Auditor annually to conduct a fiscal and
compliance audit of the accounts and transactions of the Medical Mutual
Liability Insurance Society of Maryland; requiring the Society to pay the cost of a
certain audit; providing that a medical professional liability insurer that issues
or delivers a new policy is not subject to a certain provision of law; providing that
the Commissioner shall make a certain determination within 90 days of a request
to review a cancellation or refusal to renew a policy for medical professional
liability insurance; requiring a medical professional liability insurer, under
certain circumstances, to immediately reinstate a policy for medical professional
liability insurance that was terminated by the insurer;
establishing a People's
Insurance Counsel Division in the Office of the Attorney General providing for
the appointment, qualifications, and compensation of the People's Insurance
Counsel; requiring the Attorney General's Office to provide money in its annual
budget for the People's Insurance Counsel Division; authorizing the Division to
retain or hire certain experts; requiring the People's Insurance Counsel to
administer and operate the People's Insurance Counsel Division; establishing
the People's Insurance Counsel Fund; requiring the Maryland Insurance
Commissioner to collect a certain assessment from certain insurers and deposit
the amounts collected into the People's Insurance Counsel Fund; establishing
the duties of the Division; establishing certain rights of the Division in
appearances before the Commissioner and courts on behalf of insurance
consumers; authorizing the Division to appear before any unit of State or federal
government to protect the interests of insurance consumers; providing that the
Division shall have full access to certain records under certain circumstances;
providing that the Division is entitled to the assistance of certain staff under
certain circumstances; authorizing the Division to recommend certain
legislation to the General Assembly; requiring the Division to report on its
activities to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before a certain date
each year;
establishing the Maryland Medical Professional Liability Insurance
Rate Stabilization Fund; establishing the purposes of the Fund; requiring the
Maryland Insurance Commissioner to administer the Fund; providing that the
Fund is a special, nonlapsing fund; requiring the State Treasurer to hold the
Fund and the Comptroller to account for the Fund; requiring that interest on
and other income from the Fund be separately accounted for; providing that the
debts and obligations of the Fund are not debts and obligations of the State or a
pledge of credit of the State; providing that the Fund consists of the revenue
imposed from the premium tax on health maintenance organizations and
managed care organizations and interest on and other income from the Fund;
establishing the Medical Assistance Program Account within the Fund;
authorizing the Commissioner to enter into certain agreements with medical
professional liability insurers to provide certain disbursements from the Fund

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