New York Insurance Law Article 26 - UNFAIR CLAIM SETTLEMENT PRACTICES; OTHER MISCONDUCT; DISCRIMINATION

• 2601 - Unfair Claim Settlement Practices; Penalties.
  (a) No insurer doing business in this state shall engage in unfair claim settlement practices. Any of the following acts by an insurer, if committed...
• 2602 - Rebates on Life Insurance; Witnesses' Immunity.
  (a) No person shall knowingly receive any rebate or allowance or deduction from any premium, or any valuable thing, special favor or advantage whatever not...
• 2603 - Issue or Circulation of False Literature.
  No insurance corporation, or any officer, director or agent thereof, shall issue or circulate, or cause or permit to be issued or circulated, in this...
• 2604 - False Statements As to Insurers.
  No person shall either (i) wilfully make, circulate or transmit to another any statement written, printed or by word of mouth, which is untrue in...
• 2605 - Penalty for Violating Workers' Compensation Law.
  The superintendent may impose a penalty not to exceed twenty-five hundred dollars upon any insurer required to be licensed under the provisions of this chapter,...
• 2606 - Discrimination Because of Race, Color, Creed, National Origin, or Disability.
  (a) Except as provided in section one thousand one hundred eight of this chapter, no individual or entity subject to the supervision of the superintendent...
• 2607 - Discrimination Because of Sex or Marital Status.
  No individual or entity shall refuse to issue any policy of insurance, or cancel or decline to renew such policy because of the sex or...
• 2608 - Discrimination Because of Treatment for a Mental Disability.
  (a) No individual or entity shall refuse to issue or renew, or shall cancel any policy of insurance because of any past treatment for a...
• 2608-a - Discrimination in Enrollment Against Certain Children.
  (a) No employer, health insurer, group health plan, health maintenance organization, or other entity offering medical benefits whether by insurance or otherwise, including an employee...
• 2609 - Discrimination in the Issuance of Performance or Surety Bonds.
  No person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of issuing performance or surety bonds shall refuse to issue such a bond to any person,...
• 2610 - Collision or Comprehensive Coverage on Motor Vehicles; Claims; Repairs.
  (a) Whenever a motor vehicle collision or comprehensive loss shall have been suffered by an insured, no insurer providing collision or comprehensive coverage therefor shall...
• 2610-a - Rental Vehicle Reimbursement Coverage.
  (a) For the purposes of this section, "rental vehicle reimbursement coverage" shall mean coverage for the cost of renting a vehicle used as substitute transportation...
• 2611 - Hiv Written Informed Consent.
  (a) No insurer or its designee shall request or require an individual proposed for insurance coverage to be the subject of an HIV related test...
• 2612 - Discrimination Based on Being a Victim of Domestic Violence.
  (a) No individual, insurer or entity subject to the supervision of the superintendent shall solely because a person is or has been a victim of...
• 2613 - Eligibility for Life and Disability Insurance for Persons With a History of Any Type of Cancer.
  (a) Unless its action is based upon sound actuarial principles or is related to actual or reasonably anticipated experience, no insurer shall refuse to issue...
• 2614 - Discrimination Because of Past Lawful Travel.
  No insurer or entity authorized to offer the kinds of insurance specified in paragraph one, two or three of subsection (a) of section one thousand...
• 2615 - Genetic Testing Written Informed Consent.
  (a) No authorized insurer or person acting on behalf of an authorized insurer shall request or require an individual proposed for insurance coverage to be...

Last modified: February 3, 2019