New York Assembly Bill 6709 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-0)
Status: Introduced on March 11 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-01-06 - referred to insurance
Pending: Assembly Insurance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Provides that an insurer doing business in this state shall be liable to a policy holder for such insurer's refusal to pay or unreasonable delay of payment to the policy holder if such refusal or delay was not substantially justified; enumerates instances whereby an insurer's refusal or delay of payment is not substantially justified including intentional negligence, failure to act in good faith, failure to provide written denial of claim and failure to make final determination of claim within six months.

Provides that an insurer doing business in this state shall be liable to a policy holder for such insurer's refusal to pay or unreasonable delay of payment to the policy holder if such refusal or delay was not substantially justified; enumerates instances whereby an insurer's refusal or delay of payment is not substantially justified including intentional negligence, failure to act in good faith, failure to provide written denial of claim and failure to make final determination of claim within six months.

Asm. William Boyland [D]	Asm. James Brennan [D]	Asm. Alec Brook-Krasny [D]	Asm. Kevin Cahill [D]
Asm. Vivian Cook [D]	Asm. Michael Cusick [D]	Asm. Ginny Fields [D]	Asm. Richard Gottfried [D]
Asm. Aileen Gunther [D]	Asm. Earlene Hooper [D]	Asm. Donna Hyer-Spencer [D]	Asm. Ellen Jaffee [D]
Asm. Susan John [D]	Sen. Brian Kavanagh [D]	Asm. Micah Kellner [D]	Asm. David Koon [D]
Asm. Rory Lancman [D]	Asm. Alan Maisel [D]	Asm. Joan Millman [D]	Asm. Audrey Pheffer [D]
Asm. Robert Reilly [D]	Asm. Annette Robinson [D]	Asm. Linda Rosenthal [D]	Asm. Mark Schroeder [D]
Asm. Robert Sweeney [D]	Asm. Matthew Titone [D]	Asm. Darryl Towns [D]	Asm. Harvey Weisenberg [D]
Asm. Kenneth Zebrowski [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-01-06		referred to insurance
2009-03-11		referred to insurance

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A06709&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A06709&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A06709