Record keeping

(a) Insurers, agencies and insurance producers shall maintain or be able to make available to the commissioner records of the information collected from the consumer and other information used in making the recommendations that were the basis for insurance transactions for seven years after the insurance transaction is completed by the insurer. An insurer is permitted, but shall not be required, to maintain documentation on behalf of an insurance producer. (b) Records required to be maintained by sections 38a-432a-1 to 38a-432a-8, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies may be maintained in paper, photographic, microprocess, magnetic, mechanical or electronic media or by any process that accurately reproduces the actual document.