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Assembly Bill A3954

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Prohibits the placement of certain insureds in the motor vehicle insurance assigned risk plan based upon any accident occurring while responding to an accident

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2019-A3954 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2335-a, Ins L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A7040
2013-2014: A2255
2015-2016: A2579
2017-2018: A5100

2019-A3954 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the placement of an insured in the motor vehicle insurance assigned risk plan based upon any accident arising from such insured's operation of a motor vehicle while responding to an emergency as a firefighter, police officer or member of a first aid squad.

2019-A3954 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3954
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEPRIN  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A.
   M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance
 
 AN ACT to amend the insurance law,  in  relation  to  placement  to  the
   assigned risk plan
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 2335-a of the insurance law, as  added  by  chapter
 152 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
   §  2335-a. Prohibition [of] AGAINST rate increases AND PLACEMENT IN AN
 ASSIGNED RISK PLAN for persons involved in emergency use of vehicles. No
 insurer authorized to transact or transacting business in this state, or
 controlling or controlled by or under  common  control  by  or  with  an
 insurer  authorized  to  transact or transacting business in this state,
 which sells a policy providing motor vehicle liability insurance  cover-
 age  in  this state shall increase the policy premium in connection with
 the insurance permitted or required by this chapter OR SHALL  PLACE  ANY
 INSURED  TO  THE  MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE ASSIGNED RISK PLAN ESTABLISHED
 PURSUANT TO ARTICLE FIFTY-THREE  OF  THIS  CHAPTER  solely  because  the
 insured  or  any  other  person  who  customarily operates an automobile
 covered by the policy has had an accident while operating a motor  vehi-
 cle in response to an emergency, where the insured was either responding
 to  a  call  to duty as a paid or volunteer member of any police or fire
 department or first aid squad; or was performing any other  function  on
 behalf of the state, any political subdivision thereof, a public author-
 ity,  public  benefit  corporation,  or any other governmental agency or
 instrumentality in a public emergency.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07515-01-9

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