New York Consolidated Laws, Insurance Law - ISC § 2703. Insurer claims handling

(a) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this chapter, any insurer organized, registered, licensed or accredited to do an insurance business in this state, in receipt of a claim against it arising from an occurrence during the period between January first, nineteen hundred twenty-nine and December thirty-first, nineteen hundred forty-five from an individual that such insurer knows, or reasonably should have known, is a Holocaust victim shall:

(b) Failure to abide by the terms of this section shall constitute a defined violation for purposes of subsection (b) of section two thousand four hundred two of this chapter.

(c) This article shall serve as additional and conclusive notice that the superintendent is currently investigating all claims pertaining to the victims of the Holocaust.  Evidence of the intentional destruction or alteration of any records or other materials pertaining to such claim shall be admissible in both administrative and judicial proceedings as evidence in support of any claim being made against the insurer involving the destroyed or altered material.  It shall be permissible for an administrative or judicial court to infer that the intentional destruction or alteration of any records or other materials pertaining to a claim was done in order to prevent discovery of information to support any claim of a Holocaust victim.