Enacts the "health insurance preauthorization disclosure act"; requires health insurance companies to provide participating health care providers with a list of health care treatments and services that require preauthorization from the health insurance company. /
Sponsor: Lancman Committee: INSURANCE

Authorizes payments to nonparticipating or nonpreferred providers of ambulance services licensed under article 30 of the public health law. /
Sponsor: Destito Committee: INSURANCE

Exempts large commercial insureds from certain rate and policy form requirements. /
Sponsor: Morelle Committee: INSURANCE

Establishes the "Interstate insurance product regulation compact" to regulate certain insurance products among member states and to promote and protect the interest of consumers of individual and group annuity, life insurance, disability income and long term care insurance products. /
Sponsor: Titus Committee: INSURANCE

Relates to overpayments to health care providers when fraud or other intentional misconduct is alleged. /
Sponsor: Bing Committee: INSURANCE

Establishes as a distinct territory for purposes of rating private passenger nonbusiness automobile insurance policies, a certain city with a population between 19,040 and 25,000 which is geographically contiguous to a city with a population between 292,648 and 350,000; provides that the superintendent may require insurers to adjust existing or establish new territory definitions based on such review. /
Sponsor: Schroeder Committee: INSURANCE

Provides for the licensure of authorized title insurance company agents and empowers the insurance department to administer all requirements relating thereto; requires the superintendent of insurance to develop an examination to test qualifications of an individual title insurance agent; exempts certain attorneys and title insurance agents; requires an initial and renewal fee of two hundred dollars for a two year license; relates to commissions of agent of title insurance companies; mandates all funds collected to be fiduciary funds. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: INSURANCE

Makes various provisions regarding health insurance coverage including requiring certain policies to cover bone density measurement and other drug therapy; removes the deductible from coverage for cervical cytological screening and mammograms; extends mammogram eligibility to persons forty and over; requires prescription drug coverage to include contraceptives; requires notice of availability of obstetrical and gynecological services; requires coverage for diagnostic testing and treatment of infertility. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: INSURANCE

Prohibits any person from acting as an administrator of warranties on motor vehicles or mechanical or electronic appliances unless such person has been licensed by the insurance department; adds new article to the insurance law entitled "administration of product warranties"; outlines covered requirements, provides penalties for violations and authorizes the insurance department to promulgate necessary rules and regulations. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: INSURANCE

Creates the office of insurance consumer advocate within the department of insurance; office to consist of five members; describes powers and duties; such office to be funded by an assessment upon domestic insurers and licensed U.S. branches of alien insurers domiciled in NYS. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: INSURANCE

Directs the special advisory panel on homeowners' insurance/catastrophe coverage to study certain facets of insurance in coastal areas. /
Sponsor: Latimer Committee: INSURANCE

Requires the New York state health foundation and the state insurance fund to file annual audited financial statements with the office of the state comptroller. /
Sponsor: Morelle Committee: INSURANCE

Requires health insurers to provide an insurer or subscriber who is a victim of domestic violence, upon request of such insurer or subscriber, with the option to designate alternative contact information for the purpose of receiving specific claim information or for specific billing purposes. /
Sponsor: Cymbrowitz Committee: INSURANCE

Relates to motor vehicle liability insurance rates. /
Sponsor: Morelle Committee: INSURANCE

Relates to treatment of qualified financial contracts in an insurance insolvency proceeding affecting a domestic, foreign or alien insurer. /
Sponsor: Morelle Committee: INSURANCE

Expands required health insurance coverage for the treatment and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders. /
Sponsor: Schroeder Committee: INSURANCE

Excepts from community rating requirements group health insurance policies issued to multiple employer trusts consisting of municipal corporations and public benefit corporations. /
Sponsor: Schroeder Committee: INSURANCE

Permits an insurer to rescind or retroactively cancel a policy in certain circumstances. /
Sponsor: Heastie Committee: INSURANCE

Requires individual and group health insurance policies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for comprehensive ultrasound screening and/or magnetic resonance imaging and/or other screening tests for breast cancer in certain cases; requires mammography reports to include information about breast density. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: INSURANCE

Permits insurers to make available multiple rating plans for private passenger motor vehicle insurance within the same company. /
Sponsor: Morelle Committee: INSURANCE