A1797 (2023-24 session)
NY State bill
Requires persons or entities providing benefits in the event of disability to not impose "onerous or unreasonable conditions" for the payment or continued payment of benefits thereunder, and provides for the enforcement thereof including actual damages, interest and penalties, reasonable costs and attorney's fees, and in the court's discretion, exemplary damages; exempts worker's compensation and NYS disability insurance.
- Title
- Requires persons or entities providing benefits in the event of disability to not impose onerous or unreasonable conditions for the payment of benefits thereunder
- Type
- New York State Assembly bill
- Session
- 2023-24 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2024-01-03
- In committee
- Judiciary
- Introduced
- 2023-01-23
- Law section
- General Obligations Law
Sponsors
- Jeffrey Dinowitz Assembly Member, District 81
Co-sponsors
- David I. Weprin Assembly Member, District 24
- Rebecca A. Seawright Assembly Member, District 76
Heard in committee
- Judiciary NY State Assembly committee