"The governor's auto insurance agenda is going to make it worse, because it's going to weaken protections for injured people like myself, and it's giving insurance even more leverage to lowball people like me," George Edwards told Streetsblog."
""Please don't support a measure that limits a victim's rights to seek full accountability through the courts," Browne said, addressing lawmakers in Albany. "[Hochul's] bill would have erased my case before I ever had the chance to be heard.""
Gov. Kathy Hochul proposes narrowing the definition of "serious injury" under New York's no-fault auto insurance law. No-fault currently covers medical bills and lost wages up to $50,000, with the ability to sue for additional compensation only after showing a serious injury. The existing definition includes death, dismemberment, significant disfigurement, fractures, fetal loss, loss or significant limitation of a body function or organ, or a non-permanent injury preventing daily activities for more than 90 of the first 180 days. The proposal would remove some non-permanent injuries, limiting victims' ability to sue and recover full losses and giving insurers more leverage to lowball settlements. Crash survivors with disabling injuries report risk of being unable to be made whole and urge lawmakers to preserve victims' rights to seek accountability through the courts.
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