Amendments to CPLR Impose New Insurance Disclosure Requirements on Defendants

On Feb. 24, 2022, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law an amended version of the Comprehensive Insurance Disclosure Act (the Act), expanding the insurance disclosure obligations imposed on defendants in civil cases filed in New York state courts. The obligations imposed by the amended version of the Act are not as extensive as those in the version originally signed by the Governor on Dec. 31, 2021, but the Act nevertheless includes significant new insurance disclosure requirements. The new requirements have been codified at §§3101(f) and 3122-b of the CPLR and became effective immediately.