New York A05624 requires coroners to conduct mental health assessments for suicides and mandates life insurance payouts for suicides with underlying.

New York A05624, known as the mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act, mandates that coroners, coroners and coroner's physicians, or medical examiners, conduct mental health assessments when a death occurs in their jurisdiction. These assessments must include evaluations of the deceased's medical and psychiatric history. Death certificates must list an underlying mental illness as the cause of death when a person commits suicide, unless the coroner's assessment indicates otherwise.

New York A05624 requires coroners to conduct mental health assessments for suicides and mandates life insurance payouts for suicides with underlying.

New York A05624, known as the mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act, mandates that coroners, coroners and coroner's physicians, or medical examiners, conduct mental health assessments when a death occurs in their jurisdiction. These assessments must include evaluations of the deceased's medical and psychiatric history. Death certificates must list an underlying mental illness as the cause of death when a person commits suicide, unless the coroner's assessment indicates otherwise.