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Correction, amendment or deletion of recorded personal information - Conn. Gen. Stat. § 38a-984

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Individuals may request that insurance institutions, agents, and organizations (“Insurers”) correct, amend, or delete personal information maintained by an Insurer. Insurers must, within 30 days of receiving a request, take the requested action or notify the individual that of their refusal to take the requested action, the reasoning for their refusal, and the individual’s right to file a statement with the Insurer regarding what they believe is the correct information. Insurers must make disclose the individual’s statement when making future disclosures of the individual’s personal information.

Upon correcting, amending, or deleting personal information pursuant to an individual’s request, or filing an individual’s statement of disagreement, an Insurer must notify the individual that they have completed the action and provide the changed information  or statement to (1) persons specified by the individual that received the personal information in the prior two years; (2) insurance-support organizations that primarily obtain their information from the Insurer and have received information “systematically…within the preceding seven years,” unless “the organization no longer maintains the information about the individual;” and (3) “any insurance-support organization that furnished the personal information that has not been corrected, amended, or deleted.” 


Current as of June 2015