402 - Insurance frauds bureau. - New York Statutes

§ 402. Insurance frauds bureau. (a) The insurance frauds bureau in the department under the supervision of the superintendent shall be continued. It shall be a qualified agency, as defined in section eight hundred thirty-five of the executive law, to enforce the provisions of this article. (b) The superintendent shall have the power to designate employees of the bureau as peace officers as defined in section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law. (c) the superintendent is authorized to establish within the insurance frauds bureau one or more units designated for the purpose of investigating and preventing fraud in certain specified areas of the business of insurance, and shall establish such a unit for workers' compensation insurance frauds investigations. The superintendent shall designate not less than ten employees as peace officers pursuant to subdivision (b) of this section as staff of such unit. The superintendent shall assign not less than two of the peace officers designated pursuant to this section to the fraud investigation unit of the state insurance fund for such periods as the superintendent shall determine for the purpose of developing and implementing the state insurance fund's fraud prevention and detection activities.