E.__Is necessary to allow the settlement provider or insurance producer or an authorized representative to make contacts for the purpose of determining health status; or

F.__Is required to purchase stop-loss coverage.

3. Sale or transfer. A viatical settlement provider may not sell or transfer a viaticated policy to a financing entity other than an institutional investor or a licensed viatical settlement provider.

Sec. 10. 24-A MRSA §§6807 and 6808, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 430, §1 and affected by §2, are amended to read:

§6807. Examinations and investigations

1. Complaint. In response to a complaint concerning a licensee or in connection with an application for a license, the superintendent may examine the business and affairs of any licensee or applicant for a license. Subject to the provisions of section 6806, the superintendent may order a licensee or applicant to produce records, books, files or other information reasonably necessary to ascertain whether the licensee or applicant is acting or has acted in violation of this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter. The expenses incurred in conducting an examination must be paid by the licensee or applicant.

1-A.__Examinations.__The superintendent may conduct examinations in accordance with this subsection.

A.__The superintendent may conduct an examination under this chapter of a licensee as often as the superintendent in the superintendent's sole discretion considers appropriate.

B.__For purposes of completing an examination of a licensee under this chapter, subject to the provisions of section 6806, the superintendent may examine or investigate any person, or the business of any person, insofar as the examination or investigation is, in the sole discretion of the superintendent, considered necessary or material to the examination of the licensee.

C.__In lieu of an examination under this chapter of any foreign or alien licensee licensed in this State, the superintendent may, at the superintendent's discretion,