Section 209. Special reports  


Latest version.
  • (a) The superintendent of insurance shall, no
      later than January thirty-first, nineteen hundred eighty-six, submit  to
      the  governor  and the legislature a report on the operation and results
      of chapter seven hundred eighty-one of  the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred
      eighty-three  amending the vehicle and traffic law and the insurance law
      relating to motor vehicle liability insurance, notices  of  termination,
      procedures  for  lack  of  financial  security and exemption for certain
      vehicles.
        (b) The superintendent,  in  consultation  with  the  commissioner  of
      health,  shall appoint an advisory panel for the purpose of developing a
      standardized medical claim form or forms to be utilized  by  all  health
      care   providers   and   insurers.   The  panel  shall  consist  of  the
      superintendent, or his or her designee, and two representatives each  of
      commercial insurance companies, health and hospital service corporations
      subject  to  the  provisions  of  article  forty-three  of this chapter,
      companies which make payments pursuant to the workers' compensation law,
      volunteer  firefighters'  benefit  law,  volunteer  ambulance   workers'
      benefit  law  and  the comprehensive motor vehicle insurance reparations
      act, health maintenance organizations, as defined in section  forty-four
      hundred  one  of the public health law, hospitals, as defined in section
      twenty-eight hundred  one  of  the  public  health  law,  purchasers  of
      insurance,  and  the medical society of New York state. The panel, whose
      members shall serve without compensation, shall meet periodically at the
      discretion of the superintendent. On  or  before  July  first,  nineteen
      hundred  ninety-three, the panel shall make a report on its findings and
      recommendations to the  governor,  the  speaker  of  the  assembly,  the
      temporary  president  of  the  senate,  the chairpersons of the assembly
      insurance  committee  and  the  assembly  health  committee,   and   the
      chairpersons  of  the  senate  insurance committee and the senate health
      committee.