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FORD v. UNITY HOSP.

32 N.Y.2d 464 (1973)

Frank Ford, as Administrator of The Estate of Dorothy M. Ford, Deceased, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Unity Hospital et al., Defendants. Bryce Anthony et al., Third-Party Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. "America", Compagnia General De Seguros, S. A., Third-Party Defendant-Appellant, and Mid-Continent Underwriters et al., Third-Party Defendants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 7, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geoffrey D. C. Best for appellant.

John J. Tullman and R. Robert Caplan for respondents.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BREITEL, JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES and WACHTLER concur.

BURKE, J.

The issue on this appeal is whether the unauthorized act of a foreign insurance agent in delivering into this State a cover letter for a policy which was both beyond the scope of and in direct contravention of its agency agreement is sufficient under due process standards to subject its principal, a non-domiciliary insurer having no other contacts with New York, to the jurisdiction of our courts pursuant...

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