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STATE FARM AUTO INS v. AMATO

72 N.Y.2d 288 (1988)

In the Matter of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Respondent, v. Anthony Amato et al., Respondents, and City of New York et al., Appellants. (Proceeding No. 1.) In the Matter of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Respondent, v. John Rutherford et al., Appellants, and Aetna Casualty and Surety Company et al., Respondents. (Proceeding No. 2.)

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 12, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter L. Zimroth, Corporation Counsel (William Thom, Lori Finsterwald and Stephen J. McGrath of counsel), for City of New York and another, appellants.

Sally Weinraub and Bert W. Subin for John Rutherford and another, appellants.

Bertram Herman for State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, respondent.

Michael Majewski and Glen H. Shore for Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, respondent.

Judges SIMONS, KAYE, TITONE and BELLACOSA concur with Judge ALEXANDER; Chief Judge WACHTLER dissents and votes to affirm in a separate opinion in which Judge HANCOCK, JR., concurs.

ALEXANDER, J.

The issue presented on this appeal is whether the City of New York (City), as an unregulated self-insurer, is statutorily required to provide uninsured motorist coverage to two of its police officers who were injured when their police vehicles were struck by uninsured motor vehicles. We hold that there is no such statutory obligation.

I.

Proceeding No. 1

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