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Publication Categories

• Updated! Long Term Care
• Updated! Recent Reports and Publications
• Annual Report of the Superintendent of Insurance
• Automobile Insurance
  • Complaint Rankings
  • New! Consumer Guide
  • Rates and other information
• Captive Insurance Application Forms
• Consumer Complaint Form
• Department Newsletters "The Bulletins"
• Disaster Assistance Information
• Frauds (Insurance)
• Health Insurance
  • Consumer Guides
    • Health Insurers (Includes Health Complaint Rankings)
    • HMOs
  • Rates
  • Healthy New York Reports and Studies (link to Healthy New York site, includes the new 2008 Annual Report)
    • Reports and Studies
• Holocaust Victims Insurance Act of 1998 - Insurer's Initial Reports (Self-Extracting *.exe Kits)
• Homeowners & Tenants Insurance
• Licensing (includes link to application forms)
• Life Insurance
• Medical Malpractice
• Memorandums of Understanding
• New York Annual Statements and Supplements
• No-Fault Arbitration Form - Request
• Producers (Agents & Brokers) Services
• Provider Prompt Payment Complaint Form
• Purchasing Group Forms
• Rates & Forms Filings Checklists (P & C Insurance)
• Security Fund Reports
• Small Business Guides
• Spanish publications (En Español)
• Telephone Orders
• Timothy's Law

Annual Report of the Superintendent of Insurance to the New York Legislature

Note: These reports are now available from 1999 through the present.

• New! 2008 Annual Report
• 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999

Automobile Insurance:

• New! Total Loss Valuation Project Report (PDF format - prepared by DeLoitte Consulting LLP)
• New! 2009 Consumer Guide to Automobile Insurance
  • PDF version
  • HTML version
    • Automobile Discounts
    • Automobile Rate Tables (Rates effective July 1, 2009)
    • Selected New York State Private Passenger Automobile Insurance Rating Territories (Rates effective July 1, 2009)
• Automobile Insurance Complaint Rankings
  • 2009 Ranking of Automobile Insurance Complaints (based on 2008 data)
  • 2008 Rankings (based on 2007 data)
  • 2007 Rankings (based on 2006 data)
  • 2006 Rankings (based on 2005 data)

Captive Insurance Application Forms

• Captive Insurance Application Forms (Captive Insurance Web site page with available downloads)

Consumer Complaint Form

• Consumer Complaint Form

  For Filing Instructions, see How to File a Complaint or Make an Inquiry

Department Newsletter - "The Bulletin"

• See our "Historical Documents and Archives" section via this link.

Disaster Assistance Information

• A Consumer Guide to Insurance for Natural Disasters

External Appeal Program Annual Reports

• Report January 1, 2005 - December 31, 2005
• Report January 1, 2004 - December 31, 2004
• Report January 1, 2003 - December 31, 2003
• Report January 1, 2002 - December 31, 2002

Fraud (Insurance):

• Updated! Insurance Frauds Consumer Brochure
• 2008 Health Insurance Fraud Annual Report to the Governor
• Insurance Frauds Bureau Annual Reports to the Governor and the Legislature on the Operations of the Insurance Frauds Prevention Act (Published January 15th of the following year)

  2008 Report

  2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999

• Insurance Frauds Bureau, A 25-Year Retrospective 1981 - 2006

  Twenty-Five Years of Service to the People of New York State

• Insurance Frauds Bureau, A 20-Year Retrospective 1981 - 2001

  Twenty Years of Service to the People of New York State

• Report on Investigation Regarding Compliance with Insurance Law Section 2610

Health Insurance

• Health Insurance Consumer Guide (includes Complaint Rankings of the year previous to the edition year)
  • New! 2009 edition
  • 2008 edition
  • 2007 edition
  • 2006 edition
  • 2005 edition
  • 2004 edition
  • 2003 edition
• HMO Consumer Guide
  • New! 2009 edition
  • 2008 edition
  • 2007 edition
  • 2006 edition
  • 2005 edition
• Health Insurance Resource Center
• Interactive New York Consumer Guide to HMOs (external link, includes Health Consumer Guides noted above)
• Premium Rates for HMO Standard Individual Health Plans (By County)
• Updated!  Healthy New York Guidebooks & Applications (Link to Healthy New York home page)
• Computer Aided Devices(CAD) Report (A Report on Computer Aided Devices(CAD) for Mammography Screening)

Holocaust Victims Insurance Act of 1998 - Insurer's Initial Reports

For further explanation on the Kits offered below, please see the instructions following the "Circular Letter 26 forms ...." bullets.

• Kits (Self-Extracting *.exe Format)
  • Circular Letter 26 forms and 1-2-3 WK1 spreadsheet
  • Circular Letter 26 forms and 1-2-3 WK4 spreadsheet
  • Circular Letter 26 forms and Excel spreadsheet

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4. Using File Manager in Windows, double click on the file that you just downloaded. The individual files will then be extracted into the same directory. After this process is complete, you may have to refresh the directory listing to see the files.
5. Using File Manager in Windows, highlight an individual form (ending with *.PDF) and double click. This will start Adobe Acrobat Reader and will allow you to read or print the form as needed.

Homeowners & Tenants Insurance

• Consumer Shopping Guide for Homeowners and Tenants Insurance

  This is the text portion of the Consumer Guide. For Price Comparison Tables, see the next two bullets below.

• Downstate Price Comparison Tables (New York City, Long Island and Westchester Counties)
• Upstate Price Comparison Tables Upstate (All other Counties)
• Temporary Panel on Homeowners’ Insurance Coverage - Reports to Governor George E. Pataki and Members of the NYS Legislature
  • Temporary Panel on Homeowners’ Insurance Coverage (2001) (September 1, 2001)
  • Temporary Panel On Homeowners' Insurance Coverage (2000) (May 1, 2000)
  • Temporary Panel on Homeowners' Insurance Coverage (1999) (February 1, 1999, prepared by Applied Insurance Research, Inc.)
    • Appendix C - Hurricane Loss Analysis - Homeowners
  • Temporary Panel on Homeowners' Insurance Coverage (1998) (February 1, 1998)

Licensing

• Updated layout! Licensing Application Forms and Class Information
• Annual Report on Insurance Agent Licensing Examinations - Pursuant to Section 214, Insurance Law (PDF format)
  • Report
  • Demographics Attachment

Life Insurance

• New! Consumer Guide For Annuity Products in New York
• Brochure:  Policyholder Protection - Life Insurance Company Guaranty Corporation Of New York
• Life Insurance Resource Center
• Article 4 - Estimated Life Estate Value

Long Term Care

• A Consumer Guide to Long Term Care Insurance in New York
• Long Term Care Insurance Options in New York State: A Report to the Governor and Legislature - 2005

• The Implementation of Legislation Permitting Approval of Certain Long Term Care Health Insurance Plans - A Report by the Superintendent of Insurance to Governor and the Legisature
  • New! 2009 (December 31, 2009)
  • 2007 (December 31, 2007)
  • 2005 (December 31, 2005)
  • 2003 (December 31, 2003)
  • 2001 (December 31, 2001)

Medical Malpractice

• The Status of Primary and Excess Medical Malpractice Market and the Future Need For the Medical Malpractice Insurance Association A Report to the Governor and the Legislature by the Superintendent of Insurance (December 1, 1997)

New York Annual Statements and Supplements

• 2008 New York Annual Statements and Supplements

  For instructions and to download complete kits, see Annual Statements Instructions and Forms

No-Fault Arbitration Form - Request

• No-Fault Arbitration Form - Request (External link)

  For Filing Instructions see How to File a Request for No-Fault Arbitration

Producer (Agents & Brokers) Services

• Premium Tax Statement Section 2118

  For use in computing tax due under section 2118 of the New York State Insurance Law. Due March 15, 2008.

• Duplicate License Request

  A duplicate license is issued when a license is lost,destroyed, or never received by the licensee. For details, see Services for Existing Licensees

• Letter of Clearance

  Includes instruction letter and Power of Attorney form. May be required when a licensee moves from New York to another state and wants to become licensed in that state. For details, see Services for Existing Licensees

Provider Prompt Payment Complaint Form

• Provider Prompt Payment Complaint Form

  For Filing Instructions see How Providers can File a Prompt Payment Complaint

Purchasing Group Forms

• Purchasing Group Notice and Registration (Part A)
• Appointment of Attorney to Accept Service and Designation (Part B)

Rates & Forms Filings Checklists

• Rates & Forms Filings Checklists (Download Section of the P&C Rates and Forms Filing Page)

Security Fund Reports

• New York's Security Funds: Report to Governor George E. Pataki and the New York State Legislature on Reforms to New York's Security Funds (Final Report - Pursuant to Chapter 33 of the Laws of 2005 - May 1, 2006)
• Evaluation of the Property/Casualty Insurance Security Fund, The Public Motor Vehicle Liability Security Fund and the Workers' Compensation Security Fund (Final Report Prepared by RSM McGladrey)
• New York's Security Funds: Report to Governor George E. Pataki and the New York State Legislature on Reforms to the Workers' Compensation Security Fund, Property/Casualty Insurance Security Fund and Public Motor Vehicle Liability Security Fund (Interim Report - Pursuant to Chapter 33 of the Laws of 2005 - October 31, 2005)
• Evaluation of the Property/Casualty Insurance Security Fund, The Public Motor Vehicle Liability Security Fund and the Workers' Compensation Security Fund (Interim Status Report Prepared by RSM McGladrey - October 12, 2005, Last Updated October 28, 2005)

Small Business Guides:

• Health Insurance - a Small Business Guide (Information for small business about Health Insurance)
• Property Casualty Insurance - A Small Business Guide (Information for small business about Property Casualty Insurance
  • English Version
  • Chinese Version

Spanish publications (En Español) (Formato de PDF)

• Guía para el Consumidor Sobre la Compra de Seguro de Automóvil
• Guía del Consumidor Sobre la Compra de Seguro Médico
• Una Guía Para el Consumidor Sobre la Compra de Seguros para Propietarios de Viviendas y para Inquilinos
• Una Guía del Consumidor Para Comprar Seguro de Vida
• Guía del Consumidor Sobre los Servicios de Cuidado a Largo Plazo en el Estado de Nueva York

Timothy's Law

• New! Report by the Superintendent of Insurance On the Cost and Effectiveness of New York’s 2006 Mental Health Parity Legislation (“Timothy’s Law”)

Telephone Orders

Consumer guides and publications can be obtained through our voice response system by calling:

800-342-3736 or 518-474-4557.

Updated 01/28/2010