Relates to uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for corporate and business entities, volunteer fire departments and volunteer ambulance services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7312--B
IN SENATE
May 2, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to uninsured and underin-
sured motorist coverage for ambulance services, volunteer fire depart-
ments 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. Subsection (f) of section 3420 of the insurance law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph 5 to read as follows:
3 (5) A policy that names a volunteer fire department, an ambulance
4 service or a voluntary ambulance service as defined in section three
5 thousand one of the public health law, as a named insured shall be
6 deemed to provide the maximum uninsured or underinsured motorist cover-
7 age available under the provisions of the policy to an individual
8 employed by the ambulance service or a member of the volunteer fire
9 department or voluntary ambulance service or a member of the board of
10 directors of such ambulance service, volunteer fire department or volun-
11 tary ambulance service and who is injured by an uninsured or underin-
12 sured vehicle while acting in the scope of the individual's duties for
13 the volunteer fire department, ambulance service or voluntary ambulance
14 service listed as the named insured.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
16 it shall have become a law and shall apply to any policies issued or
17 renewed on or after such date. Effective immediately, the addition,
18 amendment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the
19 implementation of this act on its effective date is authorized to be
20 made on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15699-06-2
