New York Insurance

A coalition of groups representing lawyers, doctors and consumers in court charged yesterday that new no-fault auto insurance state of New York has recently adopted benefits insurance companies and unfair to punish the victims .

The new rules, the number of days that he has violated, to report an insurance company, that 30 of 90 It may also reduce the number of days that doctors are required to submit applications for treatment on the fact that 45 out of 180

The coalition has in its memory, records of the Supreme Court of the State in Manhattan, that strict deadlines would be fair to many victims and doctors were payments they are entitled. The État’s Insurance Department, but said that the new deadlines, to protect all car owners, because the old borders, insofar as greater opportunity for fraudulent action, as premiums increase.

The new rules, the entry into force on February 1, extensions allow an applicant if legt”klare and für”fehlt justify reasonable time limit.

But David B. Golomb, president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, one of the complainants, said in an interview that the insurers themselves, was”klar and reasonable,”and he felt that the company did not trustworthy enough on the standard.

A spokesman for the insurance sector Department, Allison Klimerman not agree. She said that the Division of the measures and undertakings fines or other disciplinary measures against those who are not applying the standard rate of law.

The coalition said the 30-day period for registration was the victim shortest in the country. Mr. Golomb said that in Kansas, Kentucky and North Dakota, for example, the period of two years, and in the states of Michigan and Minnesota, it was six months to one year. If no error insurance was in New York in 1970’s, the notification period was a year later reduced to 90 days, he said.

The no-fault in the self-determination of insurance policies in New York is to guarantee payments for medical care and lost wages for car accidents, where a victim injuries are not serious. Only seriously wounded May, a complaint.

The new rules also make it difficult for victims, do not respect the deadline for obtaining information useful for action, they are entitled to another file, “said Golomb.

It is not unusual for lawyers against the laws or regulations, they believe, would reduce complaints, but the New York Public Interest Research Group also denounced the new rules to join the suit.

”This change is not really helped, insurers, in order to fight against fraud,’’said Andy Goldberg, a lawyer Nypirg,”but it is to ensure that New Yorkers filing claims, while promoting insurance benefits. ” ‘

The applicants consider that a person whose injuries were serious enough to prevent the supply of him having regard to the insurance company within 30 days - for example, a pedestrian, was not in a position to know what insurance companies drivers - würde”Gesicht Denial-of - all services.”would be the victim of an accident is not familiar with the new deadlines to check, he said in court documents.

She added that doctors only 45 days for damages Datei”ist simply too short for many medical practices and billing companies.”

Ms. Klimerman said registration and reducing claim filing deadlines would suchen fruher insurers on salaries, reducing the Internet offers the possibility of unnecessary diagnostic tests and treatments.