(a) RBC reports, to the extent the information therein is not required to be set forth in a publicly available annual statement schedule, and RBC plans, including the results or report of any examination or analysis of an insurer performed under this article, and any corrective order issued by the commissioner pursuant to examination or analysis with respect to a domestic insurer or foreign insurer that are filed with the commissioner constitute information that may be damaging to the insurer if made available to its competitors and therefore shall be kept confidential by the commissioner.

(b) Information described in subsection (a) shall be given confidential treatment, may not be subject to subpoena by any Federal, state or other jurisdiction and may not be made public by the commissioner or any other person, except to insurance or other regulatory officials of this or other jurisdictions, without the prior written consent of the insurer to which the information pertains unless the commissioner determines to make the information public for purposes of actions taken by the commissioner under Article V.¹

(c) The comparison of an insurer's total adjusted capital to any of its RBC levels is a regulatory tool that may indicate the need for possible corrective action with respect to the insurer and is not intended as a means to rank insurers generally. Therefore, except as otherwise required under the provisions of this article, the making, publishing, disseminating, circulating or placing before the public or causing, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated or placed before the public in a newspaper, magazine or other publication or in the form of a notice, circular, pamphlet, letter or poster or over a radio or television station or in any other way an advertisement, announcement or statement containing an assertion, representation or statement with regard to the RBC levels of an insurer or of a component derived in the calculation by an insurer, agent, broker or other person would be misleading and is prohibited, provided, however, that if a materially false statement with respect to the comparison regarding an insurer's total adjusted capital to its RBC levels or an inappropriate comparison of any other amount to the insurer's RBC levels is published in a written publication and the insurer is able to demonstrate to the commissioner with substantial proof the falsity or inappropriateness of the statement, the insurer may publish an announcement in a written publication if the sole purpose of the announcement is to rebut the materially false or inappropriate statement.

(d) The RBC instructions, RBC reports, adjusted RBC reports, RBC plans and revised RBC plans are intended solely for use by the commissioner in monitoring the solvency of insurers and the need for possible corrective action with respect to insurers and shall not be used by the commissioner for ratemaking nor considered or introduced as evidence in any rate proceeding nor used by the commissioner to calculate or derive any elements of an appropriate premium level or rate of return for any line of insurance which an insurer or any affiliate is authorized to write.