§33-27-7. Confidential treatment.
All information, documents and copies thereof obtained by or disclosed to the commissioner or any other person in the course of an examination or investigation made pursuant to section six of this article and all information reported pursuant to sections four and five of this article shall be given confidential treatment and are not subject to subpoena and may not be made public by the commissioner or any other person, except to insurance departments of other states and to the board of governors of the federal reserve system or other appropriate federal banking agency in accordance with section nineteen, article two of this chapter, without the prior written consent of the insurer to which it pertains unless the commissioner, after giving the insurer and its affiliates who would be affected thereby notice and opportunity to be heard, determines that the interests of policyholders, shareholders or the public will be served by the publication thereof, in which event he or she may publish all or any part thereof in any manner as he or she may consider appropriate.

Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2012 1st Special Session