Bill Text: NY S05505 | 2019-2020 | 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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S05505 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05505-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5505 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 3, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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. LBD08027-01-9