§1926. Duties of companies and others

            A. Any person, company, or other legal entity including but not limited to those engaged in the business of insurance, including producers and adjusters, that suspects that a fraudulent insurance act will be, is being, or has been committed shall, within sixty days of the receipt of such notice, send to the office of insurance fraud, on a form prescribed by the commissioner, the information requested and such additional information relative to the insurance act and the parties claiming loss or damages because of an occurrence or accident as the commissioner may require. The office of insurance fraud shall review such reports and select such insurance acts as, in its judgment, may require further investigation. It shall then cause an independent examination of the facts surrounding such insurance act to be made to determine the extent, if any, to which fraud, deceit, or intentional misrepresentation of any kind exists in the submission of the insurance act.

            B. The office of insurance fraud shall report any alleged violations of law which its investigations disclose to the appropriate licensing agency, the insurance fraud investigation unit of the office of state police, the insurance fraud support unit of the Department of Justice, and the prosecutive authority having jurisdiction with respect to any such violation. These units shall work jointly on criminal referrals.

            Acts 1992, No. 707, §2; Acts 1999, No. 1312, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2000; Acts 2001, No. 598, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 22:1245 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2012, No. 201, §1; Acts 2012, No. 271, §1; Acts 2013, No. 217, §1; Acts 2022, No. 159, §1, eff. May 25, 2022.