When must a private New York settling defendant pay?

Confirm the defendant or insurer belongs in subdivision (a), not the municipality or State payment branches.

Retain both duly executed papers and qualifying personal delivery or registered/certified return-receipt mailing. Include any required settlement-approval order.

Responsible actor. The private settling defendant or insurer covered by subdivision (a). A settled damages action under subdivision (a), with complete qualifying tender, including the approval order when required.

1. Confirm the defendant or insurer belongs in subdivision (a), not the municipality or State payment branches.
2. Retain both duly executed papers and qualifying personal delivery or registered/certified return-receipt mailing. Include any required settlement-approval order.
3. Exclude the established event day and count every intermediate calendar day under GCL 20.
4. Pay all sums due within the period. Preserve the qualifying tender and actual payment evidence. Ordinary email transmission is not presumed statutory tender.

GCL 20 excludes the established event day. These five-, ten-, fifteen-, twenty-, twenty-one-, thirty-, sixty- and ninety-day periods count intermediate calendar days. GCL 30 uses the corresponding calendar-month day, or the final day of a shorter month. GCL 58 defines a year as twelve months. GCL 25-a permits the next succeeding business day when the statutory final day is closed and expressly includes periods before which an act is required. The actual hearing or entry time and any different court direction remain separate checks. The independent calendar follows GCL 24 and Election Law 8-100. It includes Lincoln’s Birthday, the second Sunday in June as Flag Day, Juneteenth and general election day. GCL 24 adds the following day for a listed Sunday holiday except Flag Day. It does not generally move a Saturday holiday to Friday. Dates after 2027 are projections of the reviewed standing statute through 2033, not proof of future court openings. Check amendments, additional appointed holidays and actual closures separately.

The scoped calculators accept independently established events in 2026 and 2027 and projected final dates through 2033. They require the particular disclosed branch, no unsupported service-method addition, no unmodeled toll, no different actual court order and no additional closure. Earlier editions, historical tolls and outside dates require separate review and receive no computed or paid date. This software boundary does not establish that an act is legally late.

Fictitious example

A settled damages action under subdivision (a), with complete qualifying tender, including the approval order when required. Fictitious established facts. A settled damages action under subdivision (a), with complete qualifying tender, including the approval order when required.

Fictitious established facts. The date does not prove classification, valid service, jurisdiction, completed filing, a granted motion or an extension. Any earlier competing boundary, actual hour and future-calendar qualification still applies.

Tender method

Subdivision (g) specifies personal delivery or registered/certified mail with return receipt requested.

Judicial approval

Where required, tender the approval order with the release and stipulation under subdivision (d).

Excluded settlements

Insurance Law article 74 settlements and future structured-settlement installments are excluded under subdivision (f).

Edition and projected calendar

The scoped calculators accept independently established events in 2026 and 2027 and projected final dates through 2033. They require the particular disclosed branch, no unsupported service-method addition, no unmodeled toll, no different actual court order and no additional closure. Earlier editions, historical tolls and outside dates require separate review and receive no computed or paid date. This software boundary does not establish that an act is legally late.

• A settled damages action under subdivision (a), with complete qualifying tender, including the approval order when required.
• Use only the disclosed statutory component. Establish every omitted branch separately.

• Confirm the defendant or insurer belongs in subdivision (a), not the municipality or State payment branches.
• Retain both duly executed papers and qualifying personal delivery or registered/certified return-receipt mailing. Include any required settlement-approval order.
• Pay all sums due within the period. Preserve the qualifying tender and actual payment evidence. Ordinary email transmission is not presumed statutory tender.
• Subdivision (g) specifies personal delivery or registered/certified mail with return receipt requested.
• Where required, tender the approval order with the release and stipulation under subdivision (d).
• Insurance Law article 74 settlements and future structured-settlement installments are excluded under subdivision (f).
• CPLR 5003-a(g) defines qualifying tender as personal delivery or registered/certified return-receipt mailing. Preserve complete executed papers, the approval order if required and actual statutory tender. Ordinary email or a signed settlement agreement alone is not assumed to complete that event. Preserve payment independently.