2025 Minnesota Statutes

45.0135 INSURANCE FRAUD.

Subdivision 1.

[Repealed, 2004 c 269 art 1 s 12]

Subd. 2.

[Repealed, 2004 c 269 art 1 s 12]

Subd. 2a.

MS 2024 [Repealed, 2025 c 35 art 3 s 25]

Subd. 2b.Duties.

The commissioner of commerce may:

(1) review notices and reports submitted by authorized insurers, their employees, and agents or producers regarding insurance fraud, as defined in section 60A.951, subdivision 4;

(2) initiate inquiries and conduct investigations under section 45.027 when the commissioner has reason to believe that insurance fraud, as defined in section 60A.951, subdivision 4, has been or is being committed; and

(3) share active investigative data pursuant to section 13.39 concerning insurance fraud with the commissioner of public safety and the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

Subd. 2c.

MS 2024 [Repealed, 2025 c 35 art 3 s 25]

Subd. 2d.

MS 2024 [Repealed, 2025 c 35 art 3 s 25]

Subd. 2e.

MS 2024 [Repealed, 2025 c 35 art 3 s 25]

Subd. 2f.

MS 2024 [Repealed, 2025 c 35 art 3 s 25]

Subd. 2g.Criminal insurance fraud investigations.

(a) The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension shall conduct investigations of criminal insurance fraud, as defined in section 609.611, in accordance with section 299C.061.

(b) The commissioner shall report criminal insurance fraud-related crimes disclosed by the Department of Commerce's investigations of civil insurance fraud to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

Subd. 3.

MS 2024 [Repealed, 2025 c 35 art 3 s 25]

Subd. 4.

MS 2024 [Repealed, 2025 c 35 art 3 s 25]

Subd. 5.

MS 2024 [Repealed, 2025 c 35 art 3 s 25]

Subd. 6.

[Renumbered 299C.061, subd 9]

Subd. 7.

[Renumbered 299C.061, subd 10]

Subd. 8.

[Renumbered 299C.061, subd 11]

Subd. 9.

[Renumbered 299C.061, subd 12]

History:

2002 c 331 s 1; 2004 c 269 art 1 s 2-9; 2005 c 10 art 2 s 4; 2005 c 77 s 1; 2005 c 147 art 11 s 1; 2009 c 178 art 1 s 2; 2013 c 85 art 6 s 1; 2013 c 135 art 3 s 2; 1Sp2015 c 1 art 3 s 2; 2017 c 94 art 8 s 1; 2017 c 98 s 2; 2022 c 93 art 2 s 1,2; 2024 c 121 art 4 s 1; 2025 c 20 s 12; 2025 c 35 art 3 s 3-8,24