{"data":{"id":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-58-2-52","jurisdiction":"us-nc","citation":"N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-2-52","heading":"Appeals and rate-making hearings before the Commissioner.","body":"(a)\tThe Commissioner may adopt rules for the hearing of appeals by the Commissioner or the Commissioner's designated hearing officer under G.S. 58-36-35, 58-37-65, 58-45-50, 58-46-30, 58-48-40(c)(7), 58-48-42, and 58-62-51(c). These rules may provide for prefiled evidence and testimony of the parties, prehearing statements and conferences, settlement conferences, discovery, subpoenas, sanctions, motions, intervention, consolidation of cases, continuances, rights and responsibilities of parties, witnesses, and evidence.\n(b)\tNotwithstanding G.S. 150B-38(h), hearing procedures for rate filings made by the North Carolina Rate Bureau shall be governed by the provisions of Article 36 of this Chapter and G.S. 150B-39 through G.S. 150B-41. The Commissioner may adopt rules for those hearings.\n(c)\tAppeals under the statutes cited in subsection (a) of this section are not contested cases within the meaning of G.S. 150B-2(2). (1993, c. 409, s. 23; 1995, c. 193, s. 7.)","path":["Chapter 58. Insurance.","Article 2. Commissioner of Insurance."],"source_url":"https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_58/GS_58-2-52.html","current_through":"S.L. 2026-30","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T18:06:53Z","sha256":"990283de72f9e98a9292652eee016f17670918d5bf54e034cc062c7f7d69c051","source_id":"us-nc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-58-2-50","next":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-58-2-53"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}