§ 147.047.Inspection

A pre-suit inspection right, and it is unusual to find one in a statute.

Subsection (a): a person receiving notice may inspect a computer product or computer service product that is subject to the claimant’s control to assess the nature, scope, and consequences of the computer date failure.

The purpose clause is a real limit. The inspection is to assess the failure, not to conduct general discovery about the claimant’s business.

"Subject to the claimant’s control" is the other limit, and it is practical: a claimant cannot produce what it does not control, and a system hosted or owned by someone else is outside the right.

Why the right exists is worth stating. A defendant receiving a notice describing a failure in a system it cannot see is being asked to evaluate a claim blind — and to decide within 60 days whether to offer settlement, knowing an unreasonable refusal caps the claimant’s recovery only if the offer was adequate.

Inspection is what makes that judgment possible.

Subsection (b) sets the standard: the inspection must be conducted in a reasonable manner and at a reasonable time and place — three separate reasonableness requirements, each a way the right can be exceeded.

The section supplies no enforcement mechanism, so a claimant who refuses access faces no stated sanction. The practical consequence is that the defendant assesses the claim on what it has, and the settlement offer reflects that.