With the passing of the Comprehensive Insurance Disclosure Act (CIDA), defendants are faced with a new landscape of insurance disclosure requirements. For years, New York courts have permitted parties to "obtain discovery of the existence and contents of any insurance agreement under which any person carrying on an insurance business may be liable to satisfy part of all of a judgment … or to indemnify or reimburse for payments made to satisfy the judgment." CPLR 3101(f) (McKinney 2020).

On Dec. 31, 2021, however, this permissive approach of providing relevant insurance information only when requested by an opposing party was turned on its head when Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the CIDA, which overhauled CPLR 3101(f) and places significant burdens on defendants to provide proactively to plaintiffs certain insurance information and documentation.