23 CAR § 43-207. Interventions

(a) Following issuance of the Notice of Public Hearing (NOPH), interested persons may file a petition, motion, or request to intervene in writing to the Insurance Commissioner under Arkansas Code § 23-61-305(c) setting forth its qualifications for intervention. (b) An intervenor’s financial or economic interests must be directly or immediately impacted by a commissioner’s order on the issue or issues raised in the NOPH to qualify as intervenors. (c) The commissioner, or appointed hearing officer, may grant or deny a request for intervention by written order with or without a separate administrative hearing. (d) Intervenors granted participation in the proceeding shall be: (1) Identified as intervenors; and (2) Accorded the same rights as a party in the administrative proceeding. (e) There is no State Insurance Department-required form or format for a petition, motion, or request to intervene in a proceeding other than, in general, it should: (1) Be in writing; and (2) Set out its qualifications in satisfying the above standards in this subpart.