COVER v. COHEN


113 A.D.2d 502 (1985)

Astor Cover et al., Respondents, v. Helen Cohen, as Administratrix of The Estate of Irving Cohen, Deceased, Appellant, General Motors Corporation, Respondent, and Superintendent of Insurance, as Liquidator of Consolidated Mutual Insurance Company, Intervenor-Appellant, et al., Defendant

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

December 30, 1985


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shea & Gould (Arthur D. Felsenfeld and Linda M. Brothers of counsel), for appellant.

William F. Jerome (Herzfeld & Rubin, P. C. [Herbert Rubin, Edward L. Birnbaum and David B Hamm] of counsel), for intervenor-appellant.

Lipsig, Sullivan & Liapakis, P. C. (Emilio Nunez, Pamela Anagnos Liapakis, Jay W. Dankner and Cheryl Eisberg Moin of counsel), for Astor Cover and another, respondents.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (Kenneth R. Logan and Irene S. Alpert of counsel), for General Motors Corporation, respondent.

BRACKEN, O'CONNOR and WEINSTEIN, JJ., concur.


MANGANO, J. P.

In the instant tort action, the jury found in favor of the plaintiffs and against the defendants General Motors Corporation (General Motors), Kinney Motors Inc. (Kinney) and Cohen on the issue of liability, apportioned fault between the defendants and fixed plaintiffs' damages. An appropriate judgment was then entered. Upon an appeal by the defendant General Motors, the judgment of liability was...

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