QUESTION
What strategies are suggested to manage spending on claims and settlements, especially NYPD lawsuits?
4:38:56
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New York City Comptroller Brad Lander details strategies to reduce the city's payouts for claims and settlements, with a focus on crash claims and potential future strategies for NYPD settlements.
- A deep dive into crash claims suggests significant savings can be achieved by reducing city vehicle-related crashes.
- The city's payout for claims mainly involves NYPD, Sanitation, Parks, and FDNY incidents.
- Suggestions include budgeting claim expenses on the responsible agencies and employing accountability measures for city drivers.
- Speed delimiters on routine city vehicles and enforcing the Reckless Driver Accountability Act could further reduce payouts.
- Next steps involve examining NYPD settlements more closely to implement similar strategies.
Nantasha Williams
4:38:56
You mentioned better managing spending on claims and settlements.
4:38:58
Are there specific strategies that you would suggest?
4:39:01
Very fascinated by how much money the city's ins, especially around, like, NYPD lawsuits and etcetera.
4:39:08
And so just wondering if you have any strategies on how we could do better there.
Brad Lander
4:39:13
We did a deep dive on crash claims.
4:39:16
We're actually going to be looking at NYPD settlements in in more detail going forward, but we did a deep dive on crash claims because those two areas are actually the biggest, most years.
4:39:26
And we offered a lot of ideas for what the city could do to reduce the amount of it pays out every year as a result of crashes caused by city vehicles.
4:39:37
NYPD is the largest, but there's meaningful amounts in San Nation Parks and FDNY as well.
4:39:43
And we made a whole series of suggestions.
4:39:44
As I mentioned, if you just put those on the agency's budgets themselves, And now the commissioner would be like, I would like to reduce crashes so that I could instead spend money on things that I want to have in my budget rather than on crash payouts.
4:39:57
If you held city drivers accountable using something like the reckless driver accountability act, if those drivers of city vehicles are running through speed cameras or red light cameras that maybe they shouldn't continue to be driving city vehicles.
4:40:11
And for routine vehicles, you could consider things like speed delimiters.
4:40:15
Obviously, you're not going to do that for a fire, you know, a fire truck or a police car in a chase.
4:40:22
But if you had other city vehicles with speed delivered as you would significantly reduce the amount of crash payouts that we saw.
Nantasha Williams
4:40:28
And I know, like, your office isn't litigating this.
4:40:31
It's the law department, but you have to sign it.