No. SB 140
Filed under Insurance.
Whistleblower Protections for Employees and Independent Contractors of Property Insurers; Prohibiting property insurers, or their agents or affiliates, from taking adverse actions against employees or contractors for specified reasons; authorizing such employees or contractors to bring a civil action within a specified timeframe, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDProperty insurers, their agents, and their affiliates may not fire, demote, threaten, or otherwise punish an employee or independent contractor for reporting the insurer's illegal, unethical, or fraudulent conduct.
The protected disclosure can go to a government agency or directly to the news media, and covers conduct that is illegal, merely unethical, or amounts to insurance fraud.
A retaliated-against worker can sue, but the filing deadline runs from whichever comes first: 2 years after discovering the retaliation or 4 years after the adverse action itself.
Because the shorter period controls, someone who does not realize they were retaliated against until years later could have far less than 2 years left to file suit.
AIA property insurer or its agents or affiliates may not fire, suspend, demote, threaten, or harass an employee or independent contractor, or take any other adverse action against them, for disclosing the insurer's unlawful, unethical, or fraudulent conduct.
AIThe protected disclosure can go to a government agency or to the news media, and covers conduct that violates the law, is merely unethical, or amounts to fraudulent insurance practices.
AIAn employee or independent contractor who suffers retaliation may sue in court, with the filing period measured from discovery of the violation or from the adverse action, whichever comes first, and remedies drawn from the state's general whistleblower statute.