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Assembly Bill A2211

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to electronic delivery of notices

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2025-A2211 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S10213
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3458, Ins L; amd §54, Work Comp L

2025-A2211 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that electronic notice to a party is sufficient in certain workers' compensation claims.

2025-A2211 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2211
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN  ACT to amend the insurance law and the workers' compensation 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 OR PARAGRAPH (A) OF
 SUBDIVISION FIVE OF SECTION FIFTY-FOUR OF THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION  LAW
 in  a  property/casualty  insurance  transaction  or that is to serve as
 evidence of property/casualty insurance coverage  may  be  delivered  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. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of  section  54  of  the  workers'
 compensation  law  is  amended by adding a new undesignated paragraph to
 read as follows:
   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.
                                                            LBD03855-01-5

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