N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 11, § 64-2.1
2. The spouse if a resident of the same household.
“We”, “us” and “our” refer to the company providing this insurance.
“Family Member” means a person related to you by blood, marriage or adoption who is a resident of your household. This includes a ward or foster child.
“ Occupying” means in, upon, or getting in, on, out or off.
“All-Terrain Vehicle” (“ATV”) means any self-propelled vehicle, other than a snowmobile, which is manufactured for sale for operation primarily on off-highway trails or in off-highway competitions and only incidentally operated on public highways and does not exceed sixty inches in width or eight hundred pounds dry weight.
“Trailer” means an owned trailer designed to be used with an ATV, if not being used for business or commercial purposes.
“Your covered ATV” means:
2. Any ATV on the date you become the owner
This provision applies only if you:
b. ask us to insure it within 30 days after you become the owner.
If the ATV you acquire replaces one shown in the Declarations, it will have the same coverage as the ATV replaced. You must ask us to insure a replacement ATV within 30 days only if you wish to add or continue Coverage for Damage to your ATV. If the ATV you acquire is in addition to any shown in the Declarations it will have the broadest coverage we now provide for any ATV of the same type, shown in the Declarations.
e. destruction.
LIABILITY COVERAGE
INSURING AGREEMENT. We will pay damages for bodily injury or property damage for which any covered person becomes legally responsible because of an ATV accident. We will settle or defend, as we consider appropriate, any claim or suit asking for damages which are payable under the terms of this policy. This applies even if the claim or suit is groundless. In addition to our limit of liability, we will pay all defense costs we incur.
“Covered Person”as used in this Part means:
3. For your covered ATV, any person or organization but only with respect to legal responsibility for acts or omissions of a person for whom coverage is afforded under this Part.
SUPPLEMENTARY PAYMENTS.In addition to our limit of liability, we will pay on behalf of a covered person:
7. All costs taxed against a covered person, in any suit we defend.
EXCLUSIONS. We do not provide Liability Coverage for any person:
c. in the care of; that person
This exclusion does not apply to damages to a residence or private garage.
e. parking;
ATV's. This includes testing and delivery. This exclusion does not apply to the ownership, maintenance or use of your covered ATVby:
b. would be an insured under a nuclear energy policy but for its termination upon exhaustion of its limit of liability.
A nuclear energy liability policy is a policy issued by any of the following or their successors:
9. For the ownership, maintenance or use of any vehicle, other than your covered ATV.
LIMIT OF LIABILITY.
c. Injury to or destruction of property in any one ATV accident.
This is the most we will pay regardless of the number of:
c. Injury to or destruction of property in any one ATV accident.
This provision will not change our total limit of liability.
Our limit of liability for bodily injury resulting in death is as follows:
b. Up to $100,000 for bodily injury resulting in death of two or more people in any one ATV accident, subject to a $50,000 maximum for any one person.
If the limit of liability shown in the Declarations is not exhausted by payment of damages for:
b. Property damage;
any remaining amounts will be used to pay damages for bodily injury resulting in death to the extent the limit of liability shown in the Declarations is not increased.
The amounts provided in this entire provision are the most we will pay regardless of the number of;
d. Vehicles involved in the accident.
In any event, this policy will provide at least the minimum limits of liability required by articles 6, 8, 48-A and 48-C of the New York Vehicle and Traffic Law and section 3420 of the New York Insurance Law.
OUT OF STATE COVERAGE. If an ATV accident to which this policy applies occurs in any state or province other than the one in which your covered ATV is principally garaged, we will interpret your policy for that accident as follows:
If the state or province has:
2. A compulsory insurance or similar law requiring a nonresident to maintain insurance whenever the nonresident uses a recreational vehicle in that state or province, your policy will provide at least the required minimum amounts and types of coverage.
No one will be entitled to duplicate payments for the same elements of loss.
FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REQUIRED. When this is certified as future proof of financial responsibility, this policy shall comply with the law to the extent required.
OTHER INSURANCE. If there is other applicable liability insurance we will pay only our share of the loss. Our share is the proportion that our limit of liability bears to the total of all applicable limits. However, any insurance we provide for a vehicle you do not own shall be excess over any other collectible insurance.
UNINSURED MOTORISTS COVERAGE
The Uninsured Motorist Endorsement - New York is hereby made a part of this policy, and wherever the word automobile or motor vehicle appears, reference to ATV should be inserted.
DUTIES AFTER AN ACCIDENT OR LOSS
GENERAL DUTIES. We must be notified promptly of how, when and where the accident or loss happened. Notice should also include the names and addresses of any injured persons and of any witnesses. Written notice by or on behalf of the claimant to any licensed agent of the insurer in this State, with particulars sufficient to identify the insured, shall be deemed notice to us.
A person seeking any coverage must:
5. Submit a proof of loss when required by us.
ADDITIONAL DUTIES FOR UNINSURED MOTORIST COVERAGE. A person seeking Uninsured Coverage must also:
2. Promptly send us copies of the legal papers if a suit is brought.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
BANKRUPTCY. Bankruptcy or insolvency of the covered person shall not relieve us of any obligations under this policy.
CHANGES. This policy contains all the agreements between you and us. Its terms may not be changed or waived except by endorsement issued by us. If a change requires a premium adjustment. we will adjust the premium as of the effective date of change.
We may revise this policy form to provide more coverage without additional premium charge. If we do this your policy will automatically provide the additional coverage as of the date the revision is effective in your state.
LEGAL ACTION AGAINST US. No legal action may be brought against us until there has been full compliance with all the terms of this policy. In addition, no legal action may be brought against us until:
2. The amount of that obligation has been finally determined by judgment after trial.
No person or organization has any right under this policy to bring us into any action to determine the liability of a covered person.
OUR RIGHT TO RECOVER PAYMENT. A. If we make a payment under this policy and the person to or for whom payment was made has a right to recover damages from another we shall be subrogated to that right. That person shall do:
2. Reimburse us to the extent of out payment.
POLICY PERIOD AND TERRITORY. This policy applies only to accidents and losses which occur:
2. Within the policy territory.
The policy territory is:
2. Canada.
This policy also applies to loss to, or accidents involving your covered ATV while being transported between their ports.
TERMINATION. Cancellation: This policy may be cancelled during the policy periods as follows:
(2) any driver who customarily uses your covered ATV has been suspended or revoked.
This must have occurred:
(2) since the last anniversary of the original effective date if the policy period is other than 1 year.
This provision does not apply to one or more administrative suspensions from the same incident which terminate prior to the effective date of cancellation.
(2) presenting a claim.
NONRENEWAL: If we decide not to renew or continue this policy, we will mail notice to the named insured shown in the Declarations at the address shown in the policy. Notice will be mailed at least 45 days, but not more than 60 days before the end of the policy period. The specific reason or reasons for nonrenewal shall be stated in or accompany the notice.
If the policy period is other than 1 year, we will have the right not to renew or continue it only at each anniversary of its original effective date.
If you obtain other insurance on your covered ATV, any similar insurance provided by the policy will terminate as to that vehicle on the effective date of the insurance.
OTHER TERMINATION PROVISIONS:
4. If this coverage is for other than a private passenger ATV, then the provisions of section 3426 of the Insurance Law apply.
TRANSFER OF YOUR INTEREST IN THIS POLICY. Your rights and duties under this policy may not be assigned without our written consent. However, if a named insured shown in the Declarations dies, coverage will be provided for:
2. The legal representative of the deceased person as if a named insured shown in the Declarations. This applies only with respect to the representative's responsibility to maintain or use your covered ATV.
Coverage will only be provided until the end of the policy period.
TWO OR MORE ATV POLICIES. If this policy and any other insurance policy issued to you by us apply to the same accident, the maximum limit of our liability under all the policies shall not exceed the highest applicable limit of liability under any one policy.
Every ATV owner's policy of liability insurance issued or renewed in satisfaction of the minimum requirements of article VI of the Vehicle and Traffic Law and article 51 of the Insurance Law shall set forth provisions providing minimum benefits at least equal to those set out below and contained in the provisions of the Mandatory Personal Injury Protection Endorsement—All-Terrain Vehicles in accordance with section 65-1.1(f) of this Title (Regulation 68-A).
LIABILITY INSURANCE COVERING ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES
ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE POLICY
DEFINITIONS
Throughout this policy “you” and “your” refer to: