Bill Text: HI HB640 | 2023 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Insurance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-03-24 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to CPN. [HB640 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2023-HB640-Amended.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO INSURANCE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 431:10C-802, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§431:10C-802[]] Insurance
coverage during car-sharing period. (a) A peer-to-peer car-sharing program shall [ensure
that during each car-sharing period, the shared car shall be insured under a
motor vehicle insurance policy that shall provide:
(1) Primary insurance coverage for each shared car
available and used through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program in amounts not] assume liability, except as provided in
subsection (b), of a shared car owner for bodily injury or property damage to
third parties or uninsured and underinsured motorist or personal injury
protection losses during the car sharing period in an amount stated in the
car-sharing program agreement, which amount shall be no less than $750,000
[for death, bodily injury, and property damage per accident, and costs of
defense outside the limits;
(2) Primary insurance coverage for each shared car
available and used through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program for personal
injury protection coverage that meets the minimum coverage amounts required by
section 431:10C-103.5; and
(3) The following optional coverages, which any named
insured may elect to reject or purchase, that provides primary coverage for
each shared car available and used through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program:
(A) Uninsured and underinsured motorist coverages as
provided in section 431:10C-301, which shall be equal to the primary liability
limits specified in this section; provided that uninsured and underinsured
motorist coverage offers shall provide for written rejection of the coverages
as provided in section 431:10C-301;
(B) Uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage
stacking options as provided in section 431:10C-301; provided that the offer of
the stacking options shall provide for written rejection as provided in section
431:10C-301;
(C) An offer of required optional additional insurance
coverages as provided in section 431:10C-302; and
(D) In the event the only named insured under the motor
vehicle insurance policy issued pursuant to this section is the peer-to-peer
car-sharing program, the insurer or the peer-to-peer car-sharing program shall:
(i) Disclose the coverages in writing to the
peer-to-peer car-sharing driver;
(ii) Disclose to the peer-to-peer car-sharing driver in
writing that all optional coverages available may not have been purchased under
sections 431:10C-301 and 431:10C-302; and
(iii) Obtain a written acknowledgement from the
peer-to-peer car-sharing driver of receipt of the written disclosures required
in paragraphs (1) and (2). The standard
disclosure forms used in paragraphs (1) and (2), and every modification of such
forms intended to be used, shall be filed with the commissioner within fifteen
days of providing such disclosure to the peer-to-peer car-sharing driver. The insurer or the peer-to-peer car-sharing
program shall also send to the peer-to-peer car-sharing driver every modified
disclosure form within fifteen days of the filing of such modified disclosure
form and comply with paragraph (3). Such
disclosures and acknowledgement may be sent and received by electronic means].
(b)
Notwithstanding the definition of "car sharing termination time",
the assumption of liability under subsection (a) shall not apply to any shared
vehicle owner when:
(1) A shared car owner makes an intentional or
fraudulent material misrepresentation or omission to the peer-to-peer car-sharing
program before the car-sharing period in which the loss occurred; or
(2) Acting in concert with a shared car driver who
fails to return the shared car pursuant to the terms of car-sharing program
agreement.
(c)
Notwithstanding the definition of "car sharing termination time",
the assumption of liability under subsection (a) shall apply to bodily injury,
property damage, uninsured and underinsured motorist or personal injury
protection losses by damaged third parties required by section 431:10C-301.
(d)
A peer-to-peer car-sharing program shall ensure that, during each car-sharing
period, the shared car owner and shared car driver are insured under a motor
vehicle insurance policy that, with regard to the shared car driver, provides
insurance coverage in amounts no less than the minimum amounts set forth in
section 431:10C-301, and that such policy:
(1) Recognizes that the shared car insured under the
policy is made available and used through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program;
or
(2) Does not exclude use of a shared car by a shared car
driver;
provided that for peer-to-peer car sharing
companies whose insurance coverage falls below $ ,
the counties may adopt ordinances to regulate peer-to-peer vehicles.
(e)
The insurance under subsection (d) may be satisfied by motor vehicle
insurance maintained by:
(1) A shared car owner;
(2) A shared car driver;
(3) A peer-to-peer car-sharing program; or
(4) Any combination of policies maintained by a shared car
owner, shared car driver, or peer-to-peer car-sharing program.
(f)
The insurance in subsection (e) that is satisfying the insurance
requirements of subsection (d) shall be the primary insurance during each car-sharing
period.
(g)
The insurer, insurers, or peer-to-peer car-sharing program providing
coverage under subsection (d) or (e) shall assume primary liability for a claim
when:
(1) A dispute exists as to who was in control of the
shared car at the time of the loss and the peer-to-peer car-sharing program
does not have available, did not retain, or fails to provide the information
required by section 431:10C-804; or
(2) A dispute exists as to whether the shared car was
returned to the alternatively agreed upon location as provided under paragraph (2)
of the definition of "car-sharing termination time".
The
shared car's insurer shall indemnify the peer-to-peer car-sharing program to
the extent of its obligation under, if any, the applicable insurance policy, if
it is determined that the shared car's owner was in control of the shared car
at the time of the loss.
[(b)] (h) If insurance maintained by a shared car owner
or shared car driver in accordance with subsection [(a)] (e) has
lapsed[, contains an exclusion for peer-to-peer car-sharing,] or does
not provide the required coverage, insurance maintained by a peer-to-peer
car-sharing program shall provide the coverage required by subsection [(a)]
(d) beginning with the first dollar of a claim and shall have the duty
to defend the claim[.], except under the circumstances set forth in
subsection (b).
[(c)] (i) Coverage under a motor vehicle insurance
policy maintained by the peer-to-peer car-sharing program shall not be
dependent on another motor vehicle insurer first denying a claim[.],
nor shall another motor vehicle insurance policy be required to first deny a
claim.
(j)
Insurers providing a motor vehicle insurance policy pursuant to this
section shall offer the following optional coverages, which any named insured
may elect to reject or purchase:
(1) Uninsured and underinsured motorist coverages for the shared car driver, as provided in section 431:10C-301, which shall be up to the primary liability limits specified in subsection (d); provided that uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage offers shall also provide for written rejection of the coverages as provided in section 431:10C-301;
(2) Uninsured and
underinsured motorist coverage stacking options as provided in section
431:10C-301; provided that the offer of the stacking options shall also provide
for written rejection as provided in section 431:10C-301; and
(3) An offer of
required optional additional insurance coverages as provided in section
431:10C-302.
(k) In the event the only named insured under the
motor vehicle insurance policy issued pursuant to this section is the
peer-to-peer car-sharing program, the insurer or the peer-to-peer car-sharing
program shall:
(1) Disclose the coverages in writing to the shared car driver;
(2) Disclose to the shared car driver in writing that all optional coverages available may not have been purchased under sections 431:10C-301 and 431:10C-302; and
(3) Obtain acknowledgment from the shared car driver
of receipt of the written disclosures required in paragraphs (1) and (2).
(l) Nothing in this chapter shall:
(1) Limit the liability of the peer-to-peer car-sharing program for any act or omission of the peer-to-peer car-sharing program that results in injury to any person as a result of the use of a shared car through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program; or
(2) Limit the ability of the peer-to-peer car-sharing program to, by contract, seek indemnification from the shared car owner or shared car driver for economic loss sustained by the peer-to-peer car-sharing program resulting from a breach of the terms and conditions of the car-sharing program agreement.
(m) In addition to the insurance coverage
required by this section, insurers offering insurance through a peer-to-peer
car-sharing program shall be subject to this chapter."
SECTION 2. Act 56, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, is amended by amending section 5 to read as follows:
"SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2023[,
and shall be repealed on June 30, 2025]."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval; provided that on July 1, 2025, section 1 of this Act shall be repealed and section 431:10C-802, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be reenacted in the form in which it read on the day prior to the effective date of this Act.
Report Title:
Insurance; Peer-to-Peer Car-Sharing; Shared Car Owners; Shared Car Drivers; Required Coverage; Liability; Sunset
Description:
Amends the required coverage for shared cars that are made available through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program. Clarifies when the requirements for motor vehicle insurance coverage are satisfied. Provides that the counties may adopt ordinances to regulate peer-to-peer car-sharing vehicles for companies whose insurance coverage falls below an unspecified amount. Sunsets 7/1/2025. (SD1)
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