Assembly Bill A7105

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Amending the insurance law by expanding the categories of policies classified as blanket accident policies

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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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2015-A7105 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง4237, Ins L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A106
2019-2020: A40
2021-2022: A1224

2015-A7105 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the categories of policies classified as blanket accident policies.

2015-A7105 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  7105

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 23, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Insurance

AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to blanket group accident
  and health insurance coverage

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

  Section 1. Subsection (a)  of  section  4237  of  the  insurance  law,
subparagraph (F) of paragraph 3 as amended by chapter 369 of the laws of
1985, is amended to read as follows:
  (a)  (1)  Any  policy or contract of insurance against death or injury
resulting from accident which insures a group of persons  conforming  to
the  requirements  of  one of the subparagraphs (A) through [(F)] (M) of
paragraph three hereof shall be deemed a blanket accident policy.
  (2) Any policy or contract which insures a group of persons conforming
to the requirements of subparagraph (C), (E) or [(F)] (M)  of  paragraph
three  hereof  against total or partial disability, excluding such disa-
bility from accident, shall be deemed a blanket health insurance policy.
  (3) Any policy or contract of insurance which combines the coverage of
blanket accident insurance and of blanket health  insurance  on  such  a
group of persons shall be deemed a blanket accident and health insurance
policy:
  (A)  Under  a  policy  or  contract issued to any railroad, steamship,
motorbus or airplane carrier of passengers OR OWNER, OPERATOR OR  LESSEE
OF  ANY MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION, which shall be deemed the policyholder,
a group defined as all persons who may become  such  passengers  may  be
insured  against death or bodily injury either while, or as a result of,
being such passengers.
  (B) Under a policy or contract issued to an  employer,  who  shall  be
deemed  the  policyholder,  covering  any  group of employees defined by
reference to [exceptional] hazards  incident  to  [such  employment]  AN
ACTIVITY,  ACTIVITIES,  OR OPERATIONS OF THE POLICYHOLDER, insuring such

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06334-03-5
              

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