(a) The receivership court shall receive as self-authenticated any of the following when offered by the commissioner:

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-9-109

  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Insurer: means any person who has done, purports to do, is doing or is licensed to do an insurance business, and is or has been subject to the authority of, or to liquidation, rehabilitation, reorganization, supervision, or conservation by, any insurance commissioner. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
  • Receiver: means receiver, liquidator, rehabilitator or conservator as the context requires. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(1) Certified copies of the financial statements made by the insurer; and
(2) Certified copies of examination reports of the insurer made by or on behalf of the commissioner.
(b) The receiver has the authority to certify to the correctness of any paper, document or record of the office of the receiver and to make certificates of the receiver certifying any fact contained in the papers, documents or records of the office of the receiver; and the same shall be received in evidence in all cases in which the original would be evidence.
(c) At any receivership hearing or proceeding, the verified petition and exhibits filed therewith shall be received as prima facie evidence of the facts therein contained.
(d) The appointment of the commissioner as receiver shall in no way operate to bring records of a delinquent insurer under § 10-7-503. If a third party successfully pursues a records request in the receivership court, the receiver shall be reimbursed for the reasonable cost of producing the records.
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