A 114: Allows for certain notices related to property/casualty insurance contracts under the vehicle and traffic law to be delivered by electronic means.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 114 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance AN ACT to amend the insurance law and the vehicle and traffic 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, paragraph (c) of 6 subdivision one of section three hundred thirteen of the vehicle and 7 traffic law in a property/casualty insurance transaction or that is to 8 serve as evidence of property/casualty insurance coverage may be deliv- 9 ered by electronic means so long as it meets the requirements of article 10 three of the state technology law. Where this chapter requires that 11 notice be mailed or delivered to an address shown in the policy, the 12 notice may be delivered by electronic means to an electronic address not 13 specified in the policy. 14 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 313 of the vehicle and traffic law is 15 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: 16 (c) An electronic notice that complies with section three thousand 17 four hundred fifty-eight of the insurance law shall be sufficient for 18 the purposes of this section. 19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00817-01-5