Bill Text: NY A03436 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires insurers which issue contracts providing long term care benefits to maintain records of policies cancelled during each year and requires that such records indicate which policies were cancelled due to, or within thirty days after, an increase in policy premiums due to increased premiums.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to insurance [A03436 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3436
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 22, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. COOK, GUNTHER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
         GOTTFRIED, HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insur-
         ance
       AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to health insurance plans
         for long term care
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  1117 of the insurance law is amended by adding a
    2  new subsection (h) to read as follows:
    3    (H) ANY AUTHORIZED INSURER WHICH ISSUES CONTRACTS IN  CONNECTION  WITH
    4  PLANS  PROVIDING  BENEFITS FOR LONG TERM CARE PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS
    5  OF THIS SECTION SHALL PREPARE AND MAINTAIN RECORDS WHICH LIST THE NUMBER
    6  OF SUCH POLICIES CANCELLED DURING EACH YEAR.  SUCH  RECORDS  SHALL  ALSO
    7  INDICATE  WHICH  POLICIES  WERE  CANCELLED DUE TO, OR WITHIN THIRTY DAYS
    8  AFTER, AN INCREASE IN POLICY PREMIUMS.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06983-01-5
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