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S1162 • 2025

Requires third-party food delivery services maintain insurance through a group policy that covers bodily injury or death arising out of or resulting from qualifying accidents involving a delivery person

Requires third-party food delivery services maintain insurance through a group policy that covers bodily injury or death arising out of or resulting from qualifying accidents involving a delivery person

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Liz Krueger
Last action
2026-06-01
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires third-party food delivery services maintain insurance through a group policy that covers bodily injury or death arising out of or resulting from qualifying accidents involving a delivery person

Requires third-party food delivery services maintain insurance through a group policy that covers bodily injury or death arising out of or resulting from qualifying accidents involving a delivery person Requires third-party food delivery services maintain insurance through a group policy that covers bodily injury or death arising out of or resulting from qualifying accidents involving a delivery person.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires third-party food delivery services maintain insurance through a group policy that covers bodily injury or death arising out of or resulting from qualifying accidents involving a delivery person Requires third-party food delivery services maintain insurance through a group policy that covers bodily injury or death arising out of or resulting from qualifying accidents involving a delivery person.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-06-01 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  2. 2026-06-01 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  3. 2026-06-01 Assembly

    REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

  4. 2026-05-28 Senate

    COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

  5. 2026-05-28 Senate

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1342

  6. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    DIED IN ASSEMBLY

  7. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    RETURNED TO SENATE

  8. 2026-01-07 Senate

    REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

  9. 2025-06-17 Assembly

    SUBSTITUTED FOR A70A

  10. 2025-06-17 Assembly

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.924

  11. 2025-06-12 Senate

    REPASSED SENATE

  12. 2025-06-12 Senate

    RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

  13. 2025-06-12 Assembly

    REFERRED TO CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PROTECTION

  14. 2025-06-11 Senate

    COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

  15. 2025-06-11 Senate

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1797

  16. 2025-06-11 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  17. 2025-06-11 Senate

    VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING

  18. 2025-06-09 Senate

    AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

  19. 2025-06-09 Senate

    PRINT NUMBER 1162A

  20. 2025-01-08 Senate

    REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

Official Summary Text

Requires third-party food delivery services maintain insurance through a group policy that covers bodily injury or death arising out of or resulting from qualifying accidents involving a delivery person
Requires third-party food delivery services maintain insurance through a group policy that covers bodily injury or death arising out of or resulting from qualifying accidents involving a delivery person.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1162

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          third-party  food delivery services maintain insurance through a group
          policy that covers bodily injury or death arising out of or  resulting
          from qualifying accidents involving a delivery person

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1  of  section  391-v  of  the
     2  general  business  law,  as added by chapter 693 of the laws of 2021, is
     3  amended and three new paragraphs (e), (f), and (g) are added to read  as
     4  follows:
     5    (d)  "Third-party  food  delivery platform" means the online or mobile
     6  platform of the third-party food delivery service on  which  a  consumer
     7  can  view  products  available  for  sale  and place an order for a food
     8  service establishment's products OR  ON  WHICH  A  DELIVERY  DRIVER  CAN
     9  ACCEPT AND FACILITATE ORDERS.
    10    (E) "DELIVERY DRIVER" MEANS ANY INDIVIDUAL WHO CONVEYS PRODUCTS FROM A
    11  FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT TO A CUSTOMER ON BEHALF OF A THIRD-PARTY FOOD
    12  DELIVERY  SERVICE. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, MULTIPLE DELIVERY
    13  DRIVERS WHO SHARE ONE ACCOUNT WITH A THIRD-PARTY FOOD  DELIVERY  SERVICE
    14  SHALL EACH QUALIFY AS A DELIVERY DRIVER.
    15    (F)  "QUALIFYING  ACCIDENT"  MEANS  A  VEHICULAR  ACCIDENT INVOLVING A
    16  DELIVERY DRIVER THAT OCCURS WHILE THE DELIVERY DRIVER IS LOGGED  INTO  A
    17  THIRD-PARTY FOOD DELIVERY PLATFORM AND WORKING ON BEHALF OF A THIRD-PAR-
    18  TY FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE.
    19    (G) "QUALIFYING VEHICLE" MEANS ANY TWO OR THREE-WHEELED VEHICLE, OTHER
    20  THAN  A  MOTORCYCLE  THAT  CARRIES  ITS  OWN LIABILITY INSURANCE PER THE
    21  REQUIREMENTS OF ARTICLE SIX OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW, AT THE  TIME
    22  OF THE QUALIFYING ACCIDENT.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00494-01-5
        S. 1162                             2

     1    §  2. Section 391-v of the general business law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3.  EACH  THIRD-PARTY  FOOD  DELIVERY SERVICE SHALL MAINTAIN INSURANCE
     4  THROUGH A GROUP POLICY THAT COVERS BODILY INJURY OR DEATH ARISING OUT OF
     5  OR RESULTING FROM  QUALIFYING  ACCIDENTS  INVOLVING  A  DELIVERY  PERSON
     6  SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING PROVISIONS:
     7    (A)  BENEFITS  SHALL  BE  LIMITED  TO  ONLY THOSE QUALIFYING ACCIDENTS
     8  INVOLVING DELIVERY PERSONS WHO ARE OPERATING A QUALIFYING VEHICLE.
     9    (B) BENEFITS SHALL BE LIMITED TO PAYMENTS FOR BASIC ECONOMIC LOSSES UP
    10  TO FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS PER PERSON. FOR  THE  PURPOSE  OF  DETERMINING
    11  BASIC  ECONOMIC LOSS, QUALIFYING EXPENSES SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORD-
    12  ANCE WITH THE DEFINITIONS AND LIMITATIONS OF SECTION FIVE  THOUSAND  ONE
    13  HUNDRED TWO OF THE INSURANCE LAW.
    14    (C)  THE  POLICY  OF LIABILITY INSURANCE MAINTAINED BY THE THIRD-PARTY
    15  FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SECTION SHALL PROVIDE  FOR
    16  THE  PAYMENT  ON BENEFITS FOR QUALIFYING ACCIDENTS TO ALL PERSONS, OTHER
    17  THAN THOSE EXPLICITLY EXCLUDED IN THIS SUBDIVISION, FOR LOSS ARISING OUT
    18  OF THE USE OR OPERATION OF A QUALIFYING VEHICLE BY A DELIVERY DRIVER  IN
    19  NEW  YORK.  PERSONS  ELIGIBLE  FOR  BENEFITS  SHALL INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT
    20  LIMITED TO:  (I) DELIVERY DRIVERS; (II) PEDESTRIANS; AND (III)  CYCLISTS
    21  WHO  ARE  NOT  DELIVERY  DRIVERS  WHO  EXPERIENCE BASIC ECONOMIC LOSS IN
    22  ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH  (B)  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION.
    23  PERSONS  SHALL  BE ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS IRRESPECTIVE OF STATE RESIDENCY
    24  OR CITIZENSHIP STATUS SO LONG AS THE QUALIFYING ACCIDENT OCCURS  IN  NEW
    25  YORK.  THE  PAYMENT OF BENEFITS SHALL BE AWARDED IRRESPECTIVE OF WHO WAS
    26  AT FAULT, LIABLE, OR RESPONSIBLE FOR THE QUALIFYING ACCIDENT.  OCCUPANTS
    27  OF  A  MOTOR  VEHICLE AND OCCUPANTS OF A MOTORCYCLE THAT CARRIES ITS OWN
    28  LIABILITY INSURANCE PER THE REQUIREMENTS OF ARTICLE SIX OF  THE  VEHICLE
    29  AND TRAFFIC LAW SHALL NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS.
    30    (D)  AN INSURER MAY EXCLUDE FROM COVERAGE REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION THE
    31  FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS:
    32    (I) A DELIVERY DRIVER WHO INTENTIONALLY CAUSES THEIR OWN INJURY OR WHO
    33  IS INJURED AS A RESULT OF  EXHIBITING  DANGEROUS  CONDUCT  WHILE  IN  AN
    34  INTOXICATED CONDITION OR WHILE IMPAIRED BY THE USE OF A DRUG, OR
    35    (II) ANY OTHER PERSON WHO INTENTIONALLY CAUSES THEIR OWN INJURY OR WHO
    36  IS  INJURED  AS  A  RESULT  OF  EXHIBITING DANGEROUS CONDUCT WHILE IN AN
    37  INTOXICATED CONDITION OR WHILE IMPAIRED BY THE USE OF A DRUG.
    38    (E) INSURANCE MAINTAINED BY ANY THIRD-PARTY FOOD DELIVERY  SERVICE  TO
    39  SATISFY  THE  REQUIREMENTS  OF  THIS  SECTION SHALL BE OFFERED WITHOUT A
    40  DEDUCTIBLE. A THIRD-PARTY FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE MAY  MAINTAIN  INSURANCE
    41  TO SATISFY THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SECTION THROUGH A THIRD-PARTY INSUR-
    42  ER, SO LONG AS THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SECTION ARE MET.
    43    (F)  INSURANCE  OFFERED  BY  ANY  THIRD-PARTY FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE TO
    44  SATISFY THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE PRIMARY TO ANY  HEALTH
    45  INSURANCE  POLICIES THAT WOULD OTHERWISE COVER THE BASIC ECONOMIC LOSSES
    46  DEFINED IN THIS SECTION.
    47    (G) A DELIVERY DRIVER SHALL RECEIVE BENEFITS IN ACCORDANCE  WITH  THIS
    48  SECTION  IRRESPECTIVE  OF  THE  DELIVERY  DRIVER'S IMMIGRATION STATUS OR
    49  STATUS AS AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR. A DELIVERY DRIVER INTERFACING  WITH
    50  A THIRD-PARTY FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE AT THE TIME OF A QUALIFYING ACCIDENT
    51  SHALL  RECEIVE  BENEFITS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SECTION IRRESPECTIVE OF
    52  WHETHER THE DELIVERY DRIVER'S VEHICLE IS  IN  COMPLIANCE  WITH  FEDERAL,
    53  STATE, OR LOCAL REQUIREMENTS, INCLUDING REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS.
    54    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    55  it shall have become a law.