Representatives from the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc., met with state legislators at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, as part of the association’s 2023 Albany Lobby Day program. Participants spent the day on May 2, 2023, visiting with...
On May 9, 2023, PIWA held a series of advocacy meetings in the State Capitol and Legislative Office Building with legislators and key staff to highlight the importance of the excess-and-surplus-lines insurance market and to advocate for the passage of priority...
The colloquial term “bait and switch” is used to describe when an insurance company verifies an insurance applicant’s driving history after the applicant has paid the premium on a personal auto policy. Legislation that would ban this harmful practice passed the state...
The New York Legislature certainly has been active on PIANY priority-issues. PIANY’s top priority photo inspection bill passed the Legislature late last month. This week, another PIANY priority passed the state Assembly, which deals specifically with windstorm...
The nearly 300 insurance professionals who attended PIANY’s Long Island RAP on April 27, 2023, at the Crest Hollow Country Club, in Woodbury, N.Y., were able to network, learn and discuss the issues affecting the insurance industry, and earn continuing-education...
PIANY’s top legislative priority for the 2023 legislative year is passage of legislation that would make important reforms to New York state’s outdated photo inspection law (S.5889). That legislation got a giant step closer to becoming a law as S.5889 passed the New...
Two of PIANY’s top legislative priorities for the 2023 legislative session successfully were reported out of the Senate Insurance Committee today: S.5889, which would make important reforms to the New York state’s outdated photo inspection law; and S.5896, which would exempt commercial insurance policies placed by retail insurance brokers through the unaffiliated wholesale excess-line brokers from the diligent-effort requirement when placing business in the excess & surplus marketplace.
For years, PIANY has campaigned for changes in the way the New York State Insurance Fund conducts business. Currently, NYSIF is the largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance policies in the state by a comfortable margin. In fact, it is one of the top 10...
The City of Buffalo announced last week that it has filed a lawsuit against the car manufacturers, Kia America Inc., and Hyundai Motor America, over defects in both manufactures’ vehicles that led to an increase in auto thefts. The Buffalo Police Department reported a...
It is a good day for PIANY members! On Monday, the New York state Assembly unanimously passed A.4688, which would restrict the adverse “bait-and-switch’ practice in personal auto insurance. Bait and switch is the colloquial term used to describe when an insurance...