S5591 (2023-24 session)

NY State bill

Enacts the "fairness for accident victims act"; 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.

Title
Makes provisions relating to the collateral estoppel effect of issues decided by certain arbitrators
Type
New York State Senate bill
Session
2023-24 session
Status
Signed by Governor
Latest action date
2023-12-22
Introduced
2023-03-08
Active version
S5591A
Same as
A5646
Law section
Insurance Law

Sponsors

Heard in committee

Same as

Substituted for

Committee meetings

Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.

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