13550. (a) An insurer shall cooperate with the Department of Child Support Services to identify claimants who are also obligors who owe past-due child support and report those claimants to the Department of Child Support Services. (b) An insurer shall identify and report a claimant to the Department of Child Support Services if the claim seeks an […]
13551. Notwithstanding any other law, an insurer or insurance company, its directors, agents, and employees, an insured individual on whose behalf the company makes a payment, and a central reporting organization and its respective employees and agents authorized by an insurer to act on its behalf who, in good faith, release information in accordance with […]
13552. (a) Data obtained pursuant to this article shall only be used for the purpose of identifying claimants who are also obligors who owe past-due child support. If the Department of Child Support Services does not identify an obligor in the data obtained pursuant to this article with a child support obligor, the Department of Child […]
13553. (a) An insurer may satisfy its obligation to identify and report a claimant who owes past-due child support through the use of a central reporting organization. If an insurer does not use a central reporting organization to automate the process, the insurer shall determine if the claimant owes past-due child support before paying a claim. […]
13554. For the purposes of this article, “central reporting organization” means a third-party service that automates the claims identifying process or provides interactive lookups. (Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 439, Sec. 1. (AB 2802) Effective January 1, 2019. Operative January 1, 2020, pursuant to Section 13555.)
13555. This article shall become operative on January 1, 2020. (Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 439, Sec. 1. (AB 2802) Effective January 1, 2019.)
