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FRAUDTUITOUS: Gov. Kathy Hochul has spent the last four months beating the auto-insurance affordability drum and fighting the trial lawyers and unconvinced lawmakers who stand in her way.

She’s proposing limiting the ways car crash victims — especially those deemed at fault for the collision — can sue for damages, a move she says will cut the cost of auto insurance. She also wants to target insurance fraud and staged crashes.

It’s been a massive sticking point in negotiations to finish her now-late budget.

“If, God forbid, you are the majority reason that there’s an accident, you will no longer

Author: By Jason Beeferman