New York Insurance

As it accelerates toward its summer recess, state lawmakers today adopted the first increase in the minimum automobile insurance borders in nearly 40 years, a measure that would allow greater protection to victims, but it would be push premiums for each driver of the State.

Even today, after hours of negotiations chaotic and intense lobbying, led by Senate Republicans and Democratic Control Assembly adopted a resolution, New York, on the path toward casino gambling legalized. [Page B6].

The Majority Leader of the Senate, Joseph L. Bruno, a Rensselaer County Republican, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat from Manhattan, took place on Wednesday agreed that the language of an amendment to end the rule for centuries against the ban on casinos.

But Mr. Bruno has had great difficulty with the current composition of votes necessary for the legislation. Cajoling was only after more than a dozen members to change their positions, Mr. Bruno, finally, the situation, the resolution on the ground, in close collaboration avoid a major embarrassment for the conduct of operations.

With the 1995 session scheduled to end tonight or Friday, the lawmakers said much, they are still waiting to fall at a special meeting.

A number of major blls now deceased, in the absence of a consensus between the two houses, including proposals to require disclosure of HIV infection - Results of tests for newborns, to force companies insurance pay for experimental drug treatments for patients with cancer or AIDS, the minimum wage increase on the State $ 4.25 per hour, and because of tax incentives for new development in Lower Manhattan.

The Lower Manhattan bill was strongly supported by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani was killed, but clearly by Mr. Bruno, because the Bill’s sponsor, Senate Minority Leader Martin Connor refused to Brooklyn for the democratic voice of casino gambling resolution.

Both houses have legislation would require that agencies maintain personal health to offer subscribers a choice between two plans of standardized reporting. The bill is supported by George E. Pataki Dir.

Unlike some H.M.O. Plans now, two new plans coverage for prescription drugs. And one of the insured plans the right to go outside their HMO, doctors of their choice, as long as they are willing to pay a share of the costs of these services.

Late tonight, the heads of both houses, they have an agreement on a bill, which allows the state Board of Regents to appoint a panel, design an improvement plan for the troubled Roosevelt school in District Nassau County, Long Island. Unlike an assembly the proposal, the bill would not require the immediate suspension of the school board, but there would have regents to dissolve the council if it does not implement the improvement plan.

Dir M. Mario Cuomo had the veto earlier versions of the bill auto insurance, but it suddenly took on new life this year that Mr. Pataki has approved two weeks ago. This means that the reports of limit values for a total of 1.7 million from 7.5 million in State policies, and an increase in premiums of at least $ 100 per year for policyholders after the coup d ‘ State Insurance Department.

This year’s debate pitted Albany, the two wild one against the lobbies. Trial lawyers, generally, a certain percentage of its customers in the automotive product liability cases, fought vigorously for the bill. The insurance companies, fears and higher payments and an increase in uninsured drivers, led the opposition.

Ronald S. Kermani, a spokesman for the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, noted that the current borders were reports during the year 1957, that the lower limit of $ 5000 for material damage “to buy four cars. ”

“Thirty-eight years later, we still have a minimum of $ 5000 and maybe buy the hood or the trunk of a new Plymouth, with a little work thrown barbecue,” he said.

But Assemblyman Alexander B. Grannis Democratic chairman of the Insurance Committee and an opponent of the bill, said it was “a matter of dollars and cents for the lawyers.” These cases are almost always on a contingency basis, and default is to take third for the lawyer, “he said.” If the limit is higher, the lawyer to take the highest.