STATE OF NEW YORK
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10213
IN SENATE
May 6, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. RAMOS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance 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 or paragraph (a) of
6 subdivision five of section fifty-four of the workers' compensation law
7 in a property/casualty insurance transaction or that is to serve as
8 evidence of property/casualty insurance coverage may be delivered by
9 electronic means so long as it meets the requirements of article three
10 of the state technology law. Where this chapter requires that notice be
11 mailed or delivered to an address shown in the policy, the notice may be
12 delivered by electronic means to an electronic address not specified in
13 the policy.
14 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 54 of the workers'
15 compensation law is amended by adding a new undesignated paragraph to
16 read as follows:
17 An electronic notice that complies with section three thousand four
18 hundred fifty-eight of the insurance law shall be sufficient for the
19 purposes of this section.
20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03855-01-5
