Signed by Governor Kathy Hochul

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires insurance companies to accommodate hate crime victims.

Highlights:

• Establishes that “An insurer issuing policies subject to this section shall not cancel, refuse to issue, refuse to renew, or increase the premium of a policy solely on the basis that one or more claims have been made against any policy during the preceding sixty months for a loss that is the result of a hate crime as defined pursuant to article four hundred eighty-five of the penal law committed against the person or property insured if the insured provides evidence to the insurer that the act causing such loss is a result of a hate crime and that such insured was not the offender of the hate crime” (Sec. 1).

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