Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF3423

E Holocaust Victims Insurance Relief Act of 2000 ; requiring the commissioner of
commerce to assist resident Holocaust victims, heirs or beneficiaries in
recovering proceeds from improperly denied or processed Holocaust related
insurance policies; authorizing the commissioner to establish and maintain a
central registry to be known as the Holocaust insurance company registry
containing records and information relating to insurance policies of Holocaust
victims, providing for confidential treatment and for availability of the
information to facilitate claims, authorizing certain agreements with providers
of the information and the exchange of certain information with other states and
with the international commission on Holocaust related insurance claims,
authorizing an agreement for a single registry to provide services to several
states; providing for entry of information received from certain insurance
companies into the registry, authorizing commissioner assessment of insurers to
fund the costs; authorizing commissioner investigations and examinations of
insurers for filing requirements compliance determination purposes, costs to be
borne by the insurer; providing for the processing of claims; authorizing the
commissioner to suspend the certificates of authority of insurers violating the
requirements, requiring the fulfilling of obligations to the currently insured;
providing for cooperation with the international commission; authorizing actions
against insurers by Holocaust survivors or victims, providing for extension of
the statute of limitations (mk, ja)