The New York Legislature has passed a bill that would prevent insurers from denying claims for injury or property damage based on late notice by the claimant unless the insurer can show that it was prejudiced by the late notice.
The bill was introduced at the request of the governor, and sponsored by John DeFransisco, R-Syracuse, in the Senate and Helene Weinstein, D-Brooklyn, in the Assembly.
The late notice provision is similar to legislation passed by the legislature last year but vetoed by then Gov. Eliot Spitzer because of disagreements over a separate declaratory judgment provision in the bill.
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