Bill Text: NY A03375 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that with respect to a serious personal injury action still permissible under the no-fault insurance system, the award or decision of an arbitrator or master arbitrator rendered in a no-fault arbitration will not constitute a collateral estoppel of the issues arbitrated.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to insurance [A03375 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A03375-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3375 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 26, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COOK, PEOPLES-STOKES, HYNDMAN, DICKENS, NIOU -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, DAVILA, GOTTFRIED, GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to the collateral estop- pel effect of issues decided by certain arbitrators The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 5106 of the insurance law is amended by adding a 2 new subsection (e) to read as follows: 3 (e) With respect to an action for serious personal injury permissible 4 under section five thousand one hundred four of this article, the award 5 or decision of an arbitrator or master arbitrator rendered pursuant to 6 subsection (c) of this section shall not constitute a collateral estop- 7 pel of the issues arbitrated. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07731-01-1
