 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2211
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 15, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor
 
        AN  ACT to amend the insurance law and the workers' compensation law, in
          relation to electronic delivery of notices
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subsection  (b)  of section 3458 of the insurance law, as
     2  amended by chapter 161 of the laws  of  2022,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (b) Subject to the requirements of this section, any notice to a party
     5  or  any  other  document required under this chapter or paragraph (a) of
     6  subdivision five of section fifty-four of the workers' compensation  law
     7  in  a  property/casualty  insurance  transaction  or that is to serve as
     8  evidence of property/casualty insurance coverage  may  be  delivered  by
     9  electronic  means  so long as it meets the requirements of article three
    10  of the state technology law. Where this chapter requires that notice  be
    11  mailed or delivered to an address shown in the policy, the notice may be
    12  delivered  by electronic means to an electronic address not specified in
    13  the policy.
    14    § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of  section  54  of  the  workers'
    15  compensation  law  is  amended by adding a new undesignated paragraph to
    16  read as follows:
    17    An electronic notice that complies with section  three  thousand  four
    18  hundred  fifty-eight  of  the  insurance law shall be sufficient for the
    19  purposes of this section.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03855-01-5
Relates to electronic delivery of notices

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