PRINTER'S NO. 2130
No. 1784 Session of 1991
INTRODUCED BY FREIND, CESSAR, FARGO, GEIST, NICKOL, KOSINSKI,
FAIRCHILD, PITTS, MELIO, ROBINSON, HAGARTY, GERLACH, OLASZ,
RAYMOND, BELARDI, CAWLEY, HERSHEY, NAHILL, TIGUE, CLYMER,
TRELLO, MARKOSEK, S. H. SMITH, DEMPSEY, STISH, M. N. WRIGHT,
STABACK, REINARD, THOMAS, PESCI, ARMSTRONG, TOMLINSON,
KASUNIC, COLAFELLA, J. TAYLOR, E. Z. TAYLOR, MAIALE,
LaGROTTA, LEH, KRUSZEWSKI, NOYE, ITKIN, ADOLPH AND KENNEY,
JUNE 25, 1991
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE, JUNE 25, 1991
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 5, 1968 (P.L.140, No.78), entitled "An
2 act regulating the writing, cancellation of or refusal to
3 renew policies of automobile insurance; and imposing powers
4 and duties on the Insurance Commissioner therefor," further
5 providing for renewal of policies.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Section 6 of the act of June 5, 1968 (P.L.140,
9 No.78), entitled "An act regulating the writing, cancellation of
10 or refusal to renew policies of automobile insurance; and
11 imposing powers and duties on the Insurance Commissioner
12 therefor," amended October 5, 1978 (P.L.1060, No.248), is
13 amended to read:
14 Section 6. Nothing in this act shall apply:
15 [(1) If the insurer has manifested its willingness to renew
16 by issuing or offering to issue a renewal policy, certificate or
1 other evidence of renewal, or has manifested such intention by
2 any other means;]
3 (1) If an insurer effects a renewal by sending a renewal
4 premium notice to the insured and this renewal premium notice
5 includes the following language:
6 NOTICE TO NAMED INSUREDS
7 Your automobile insurance policy will not be renewed, if
8 you fail to pay (amount of premium) by (date). If the
9 renewal premium is not paid by (date), your automobile
10 policy will no longer be in force on (date);
11 (2) If the named insured has demonstrated by some overt
12 action to the insurer or its agent that he wishes the policy to
13 be cancelled or that he does not wish the policy to be renewed;
14 (3) To any policy of automobile insurance which has been in
15 effect less than sixty days, unless it is a renewal policy,
16 except that no insurer shall decline to continue in force such a
17 policy of automobile insurance on the basis of the grounds set
18 forth in subsection (a) of section 3 hereof and except that if
19 an insurer cancels a policy of automobile insurance in the first
20 sixty days, the insurer shall supply the insured with a written
21 statement of the reason for cancellation.
22 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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