Bill Text: NY A03533 | 2017-2018 | 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 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to insurance [A03533 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A03533-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3533 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 27, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COOK, PEOPLES-STOKES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, GOTTFRIED -- 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. LBD05631-01-7
