New York Laws
Article 66 - Co-Operative Property/casualty Insurance Companies
6618 - Suits to Recover Assessments.

(b) In any such action the corporation may recover, in addition to
such sum or sums, legal interest thereon and the amount of any penalty
imposed by such corporation's by-laws for failure to pay such
assessments; but no such corporation shall provide in its by-laws for
such a penalty in excess of fifty percent of such an assessment.