Relates to supplementary uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for ambulance services, volunteer fire departments, fire companies and voluntary ambulance services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4571
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 11, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. O'BRIEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to supplementary unin-
sured and underinsured motorist coverage for ambulance services,
volunteer fire departments, fire companies and voluntary ambulance
services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 5 of subsection (f) of section 3420 of the insur-
2 ance law, as amended by chapter 11 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (5) This paragraph shall apply to a policy that provides supplementary
5 uninsured/underinsured motorist insurance coverage for bodily injury and
6 is a policy: (A) issued or delivered in this state that insures against
7 liability arising out of the ownership, maintenance, and use of a fire
8 vehicle, as defined in section one hundred fifteen-a of the vehicle and
9 traffic law, where the fire vehicle is principally garaged or used in
10 this state; or (B) as specified in paragraph one of this subsection.
11 Every such policy that insures a fire department, fire company, as
12 defined in section one hundred of the general municipal law, an ambu-
13 lance service, or a voluntary ambulance service, as defined in section
14 three thousand one of the public health law, shall provide such supple-
15 mentary uninsured/underinsured motorist insurance coverage to an indi-
16 vidual employed by or who is a member of the fire department, fire
17 company, ambulance service, or voluntary ambulance service and who is
18 injured by an uninsured or underinsured motor vehicle while acting in
19 the scope of the individual's duties for the fire department, fire
20 company, ambulance service, or voluntary ambulance service covered under
21 the policy, [except] including with respect to the use or operation by
22 such an individual of a motor vehicle not covered under the policy, when
23 that individual is operating or using a motor vehicle while acting in
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10112-01-3
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1 the scope of the individual's duties for the fire department, fire
2 company, ambulance service, or voluntary ambulance service.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
4 manner as chapter 496 of the laws of 2012, takes effect.
