If an insurer requires additional information in order to properly consider a claim, the number of days which elapse between the date the insurer mails a request for additional information and the date the insurer receives a response to the request may not be counted whenever these regulations require action by an insurer within a stated period of time.

Authority: Health-General Article, §19-706(g); Insurance Article, §§1-301, 2-109, 2-205, 2-207, 4-113, 4-114, 10-102, 10-103, 10-126, 10-131, 10-401—10-406, 10-410, 14-112, 14-407, 14-408, 14-409, 15-1005, 27-102, Title 15, Subtitle 7, and Title 27, Subtitle 3, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: September 4, 1989 (16:17 Md. R. 1884)

Regulation .03B amended effective September 13, 1993 (20:18 Md. R. 1429)

Chapter recodified from COMAR 09.30.76 to COMAR 31.15.08 effective September 7, 1998 (25:18 Md. R. 1439)

Regulation .01 amended effective October 1, 2012 (39:19 Md. R. 1238)

Regulation .02B amended effective October 1, 2012 (39:19 Md. R. 1238)

Regulation .03B amended effective January 26, 2009 (36:2 Md. R. 103)

Regulation .06A amended effective October 13, 2014 (41:20 Md. R. 1114)