ZURICH INS. CO. v. TRAVELERS INDEM. CO.


81 N.Y.2d 938 (1993)

Zurich Insurance Company et al., Respondents-Appellants, v. Travelers Indemnity Company, Respondent-Appellant, and Morton Thiokol, Inc., et al., Appellants-Respondents, et al., Defendants. Travelers Indemnity Company, Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent-Appellant, v. International Insurance Company, Third-Party Defendant-Appellant-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 8, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin, Clearwater & Bell, New York City (Barbara D. Goldberg of counsel), for Morton Thiokol, Inc., appellant-respondent.

Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P. C., Mineola (Bernard S. Meyer of counsel), Henry J. Cernitz, Garden City, and Hoffer & Hoffer, New York City, for Avis Rent-A-Car System, Inc., appellant-respondent.

Vedder, Price, Kaufman, Kammholz & Day, New York City (John H. Eickemeyer of counsel), for International Insurance Company, third-party defendant-appellant-respondent.

Siff Rosen, P. C., New York City (Ignatius John Melito and S. Dwight Stephens of counsel), for Zurich Insurance Company, respondent-appellant.

Speyer & Perlberg, Melville (Dennis M. Perlberg and Gay H. Snyder of counsel), for Travelers Indemnity Company, respondent-appellant.

Concur: Chief Judge KAYE and Judges SIMONS, TITONE, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA. Taking no part: Judge SMITH.


On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.4 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals (22 NYCRR 500.4), order modified, with costs to defendants-appellants, and case remitted to Supreme Court, New York County, for further proceedings in accordance with the dissenting memorandum by Justice Joseph P. Sullivan at the Appellate Division (184 A.D.2d 454, 456-462). Certified question answered in...

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