Assembly Bill A8519

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to certain civil actions

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • 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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2025-A8519 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7789
Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Add §346, Ins L; add §483-gg, Soc Serv L

2025-A8519 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that in civil claims under the child victims act, adult survivors act, or a civil sex trafficking claim any insurer who may provide liability coverage for a claim shall, upon request from the claimant or claimant's attorney, provide information regarding each known policy of insurance; provides that a person bringing a civil claim in a sex trafficking case need not disclose their immigration status.

2025-A8519 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8519
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Insurance
 
 AN ACT to amend the insurance  law  and  the  social  services  law,  in
   relation to certain civil actions
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new section 346 to
 read as follows:
   § 346. DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN INSURANCE INFORMATION. (A)  (1)  FOR  ANY
 CLAIM OR CIVIL ACTION THAT MAY BE BROUGHT PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION (B) OF
 SECTION  TWO  HUNDRED EIGHT OF THE CIVIL PRACTICE LAW AND RULES, SECTION
 TWO HUNDRED THIRTEEN-C OF THE CIVIL PRACTICE LAW AND RULES,  OR  SECTION
 TWO  HUNDRED  FOURTEEN-G, SECTION TWO HUNDRED FOURTEEN-J, OR SUBDIVISION
 (C) OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE-BB OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES  LAW,
 EACH  WHICH  DOES  OR MAY PROVIDE LIABILITY COVERAGE TO PAY FOR ALL OR A
 PORTION OF ANY CLAIM, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER  A  CIVIL  ACTION  HAS  BEEN
 COMMENCED, SHALL, WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF A WRITTEN REQUEST BY A POTENTIAL
 OR  ACTUAL  CLAIMANT  OR THE CLAIMANT'S ATTORNEY, PROVIDE A SWORN STATE-
 MENT, UNDER OATH, OF A CORPORATE OFFICER OR THE INSURER'S CLAIMS  MANAG-
 ER,  SETTING  FORTH  THE  FOLLOWING INFORMATION FOR EACH KNOWN POLICY OF
 INSURANCE, INCLUDING EXCESS OR UMBRELLA INSURANCE:
   (I) THE NAME OF THE INSURER;
   (II) THE NAME OF EACH INSURED, INCLUDING ADDITIONAL INSUREDS;
   (III) THE LIMITS OF THE LIABILITY COVERAGE; AND
   (IV) A STATEMENT OF ANY POLICY OR COVERAGE DEFENSE WHICH SUCH  INSURED
 REASONABLY  BELIEVES IS AVAILABLE TO SUCH INSURED AT THE TIME THE STATE-
 MENT IS SIGNED.
   (2) THE INSURER SHALL ALSO PROVIDE A COMPLETE COPY OF  THE  POLICY  TO
 THE CLAIMANT OR CLAIMANT'S ATTORNEY.
   (B)  IN  ADDITION, THE INSURED, OR THE INSURED'S INSURANCE AGENT, UPON
 WRITTEN REQUEST OF  THE  CLAIMANT  OR  THE  CLAIMANT'S  ATTORNEY,  SHALL
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11933-01-5
              

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