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A09839 Summary:

BILL NOA09839
 
SAME ASSAME AS S08886
 
SPONSORRosenthal D
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §3458, Ins L; amd §313, V & T L; amd §54, Work Comp L
 
Allows for certain notices related to property/casualty insurance contracts under the workers' compensation law and the vehicle and traffic law to be delivered by electronic means.
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A09839 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          9839
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     April 19, 2022
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. D. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Insurance
 
        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, the vehicle and traffic law  and  the
          workers'  compensation  law,  in  relation  to  electronic delivery of
          notices
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subsection  (b)  of section 3458 of the insurance law, as
     2  amended by chapter 161 of the laws  of  2022,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (b) Subject to the requirements of this section, any notice to a party
     5  or  any  other  document  required  under this chapter, paragraph (c) of
     6  subdivision one of section three hundred thirteen  of  the  vehicle  and
     7  traffic law, and paragraph (a) of subdivision five of section fifty-four
     8  of the workers' compensation law in a property/casualty insurance trans-
     9  action  or  that  is to serve as evidence of property/casualty insurance
    10  coverage may be delivered by electronic means so long as  it  meets  the
    11  requirements  of  article  three of the state technology law. Where this
    12  chapter requires that notice be mailed or delivered to an address  shown
    13  in  the  policy,  the  notice may be delivered by electronic means to an
    14  electronic address not specified in the policy.
    15    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 313 of the vehicle and  traffic  law  is
    16  amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
    17    (c)  An  electronic  notice  that complies with section three thousand
    18  four hundred fifty-eight of the insurance law shall  be  sufficient  for
    19  the purposes of this section.
    20    §  3.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 5 of section 54 of the workers'
    21  compensation law is amended by adding a new  undesignated  paragraph  to
    22  read as follows:
    23    An  electronic  notice  that complies with section three thousand four
    24  hundred fifty-eight of the insurance law shall  be  sufficient  for  the
    25  purposes of this section.
    26    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15234-01-2
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