Assembly Bill A1192

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires motor vehicle repair shops to provide written notice to customers that an insurance company cannot require a person to use a specific repair shop

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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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2011-A1192 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §398-d, V & T L; amd §2610, Ins L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A719

2011-A1192 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires motor vehicle repair shops to provide written notice to customers that an insurance company cannot require a person to use a specific repair shop.

2011-A1192 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1192

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 5, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. GANTT, GABRYSZAK, TITONE, JAFFEE -- Multi-Spon-
  sored by -- M. of A.  CUSICK -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
  tee on Transportation

AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
  motor vehicle repair shops to provide written notice to customers; and
  to amend the insurance law,  in  relation  to  requiring  insurers  to
  disclose financial interests in motor vehicle repair shops

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 398-d of the vehicle  and  traffic
law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
  (C)  IN  ADDITION  TO THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVI-
SION, EVERY MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR SHOP SHALL PROVIDE TO EACH  CUSTOMER  A
WRITTEN COPY OF THE NOTICE REQUIRED TO BE DISPLAYED BY THIS SECTION.
  S  2.  Section  2610  of  the insurance law is amended by adding a new
subsection (c) to read as follows:
  (C) IN PROCESSING ANY SUCH CLAIM, AN  INSURER  THAT  HAS  A  FINANCIAL
INTEREST  IN  A  MOTOR  VEHICLE REPAIR SHOP, AS DEFINED IN SECTION THREE
HUNDRED NINETY-EIGHT-B OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC  LAW,  SHALL,  AT  THE
TIME  OF  LOSS,  ORALLY  AND  IN  WRITING, DISCLOSE SUCH INTEREST TO THE
INSURED, AFFIRM THAT THE INSURED IS UNDER  NO  OBLIGATION  TO  USE  SUCH
MOTOR  VEHICLE  REPAIR  SHOP AND STATE THAT THE INSURED HAS THE RIGHT TO
USE ANY MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR SHOP SELECTED BY THE INSURED.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03153-01-1

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