- (a) For administrative adjudications in which there has been issued a Notice of Public Hearing (NOPH), no State Insurance Department personnel involved with an investigation or hearing shall communicate with the appointed hearing officer or Insurance Commissioner about the matter outside the presence of the respondent or respondent’s attorney, and this same limitation applies to communications to the hearing officer or commissioner by the respondent, or respondent’s attorney, outside the presence of a department attorney or investigator assigned to the file.
- (b) However, department personnel may disclose to a hearing officer or to the commissioner status report activities of the file if it is a required job duty of such person to provide status reports of his or her activities to the hearing officer or commissioner.