Senate Bill S4571

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to supplementary uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for ambulance services, volunteer fire departments, fire companies and voluntary ambulance services

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-S4571 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3420, Ins L

2013-S4571 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to supplementary uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for ambulance services, volunteer fire departments, fire companies and voluntary ambulance services.

2013-S4571 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S4571 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4571

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 11, 2013
                               ___________

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:

  Section 1. Paragraph 5 of subsection (f) of section 3420 of the insur-
ance law, as amended by chapter 11 of the laws of 2013,  is  amended  to
read as follows:
  (5) This paragraph shall apply to a policy that provides supplementary
uninsured/underinsured motorist insurance coverage for bodily injury and
is  a policy: (A) issued or delivered in this state that insures against
liability arising out of the ownership, maintenance, and use of  a  fire
vehicle,  as defined in section one hundred fifteen-a of the vehicle and
traffic law, where the fire vehicle is principally garaged  or  used  in
this  state;  or  (B)  as specified in paragraph one of this subsection.
Every such policy that insures  a  fire  department,  fire  company,  as
defined  in  section  one hundred of the general municipal law, an ambu-
lance service, or a voluntary ambulance service, as defined  in  section
three  thousand one of the public health law, shall provide such supple-
mentary uninsured/underinsured motorist insurance coverage to  an  indi-
vidual  employed  by  or  who  is  a member of the fire department, fire
company, ambulance service, or voluntary ambulance service  and  who  is
injured  by  an  uninsured or underinsured motor vehicle while acting in
the scope of the individual's  duties  for  the  fire  department,  fire
company, ambulance service, or voluntary ambulance service covered under
the  policy,  [except] INCLUDING with respect to the use or operation by
such an individual of a motor vehicle not covered under the policy, WHEN
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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