Directs superintendent of financial services to establish a separate classification for setting rates for liability insurance for installers of wind or solar electric generating systems; provides for a premium reduction to those installers which have no or minimal insurance claims.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5812
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 19, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, COLTON, FINCH -- Multi-Sponsored by
-- M. of A. McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to directing the super-
intendent of financial services to establish a separate classification
for liability insurance for businesses engaged in the installation of
wind or solar electric generating systems
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new section 2346-b
2 to read as follows:
3 § 2346-b. Reduction in rates of liability insurance for installers of
4 wind or solar electric generating systems. (a) For the purposes of this
5 section:
6 (1) "Solar electric generating system" means a photovoltaic system
7 that is manufactured, installed and operated in accordance with applica-
8 ble government and industry standards, and that is connected to the
9 electric system and operated in conjunction with an electric corpo-
10 ration's transmission and distribution facilities.
11 (2) "Wind electric generating system" means one or more wind genera-
12 tors that are manufactured, installed and operated in accordance with
13 applicable government and industry standards, and that are connected to
14 the electric system and operated in parallel with an electric corpo-
15 ration's transmission and distribution facilities.
16 (b) The superintendent shall establish a separate classification for
17 the determination of rates and premiums for liability, motor vehicle and
18 workers' compensation provided to any person or entity engaged in the
19 business of installing solar and/or wind electric generating systems.
20 (c) The superintendent shall provide for a reduction in the rates of
21 liability, motor vehicle and workers' compensation insurance premiums
22 applicable to solar and/or wind electricity generating system instal-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 lers, when such installers have filed no or minimal insurance claims,
2 and adhere to sound jobsite safety practices. The reductions provided
3 for shall be proportionally related to the actuarially calculable
4 decrease in losses in the aforementioned circumstances.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
6 ing the date on which it shall have become a law, and shall apply to all
7 policies issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such
8 date.
