S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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114
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law and the vehicle and traffic law, in
relation to electronic delivery of notices
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 3458 of the insurance law, as
amended by chapter 161 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as
follows:
(b) Subject to the requirements of this section, any notice to a party
or any other document required under this chapter, PARAGRAPH (C) OF
SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED THIRTEEN OF THE VEHICLE AND
TRAFFIC LAW in a property/casualty insurance transaction or that is to
serve as evidence of property/casualty insurance coverage may be deliv-
ered by electronic means so long as it meets the requirements of article
three of the state technology law. Where this chapter requires that
notice be mailed or delivered to an address shown in the policy, the
notice may be delivered by electronic means to an electronic address not
specified in the policy.
§ 2. Subdivision 1 of section 313 of the vehicle and traffic law is
amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
(C) AN ELECTRONIC NOTICE THAT COMPLIES WITH SECTION THREE THOUSAND
FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT OF THE INSURANCE LAW SHALL BE SUFFICIENT FOR
THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00817-01-5
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