CHRISTIANIA GENERAL INS. v. GREAT AMERICAN INS.

No. 862, Docket 91-7912.

979 F.2d 268 (1992)

CHRISTIANIA GENERAL INSURANCE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 3, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Plaisted, Roseland, N.J. (Stuart A. Smith, Donald A. Emeigh, Jr., Walder, Sondak, Berkeley & Brogan, P.A., Roseland, N.J., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Thomas R. Newman, New York City (Thomas M. Bower, Barry T. Bassis, Newman & Bower, P.C., New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before OAKES, Chief Judge, MESKILL and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.


CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from a grant of summary judgment that dismissed a declaratory judgment action brought in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Leisure, J.) by a reinsurer seeking a declaration that it be relieved of indemnifying its reinsured because the latter failed to provide it with prompt notice of claims. Plaintiff insists that defendant had a duty to warn of the great exposure it had with regard to...

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