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NAVAS MGMT. CORP. v. NEW YORK PROP. INS. ASS'N

62 A.D.2d 984 (1978)

Navas Management Corp. et al., Appellants, v. New York Property Insurance Association, Respondent, et al., Defendant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

April 3, 1978

Order affirmed insofar as appealed from, with $50 costs and disbursements.

Punitive damages do not lie against an insurance company unless it has "`engaged in a fraudulent scheme evincing such "a high degree of moral turpitude and * * * such wanton dishonesty as to imply a criminal indifference to civil obligations"'" (M. S. R. Assoc. v Consolidated Mut. Ins. Co., 58 A.D.2d 858; Buttignol Constr. Co. v Allstate Ins. Co...

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