AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HARTFORD v. COOK


21 A.D.3d 1155 (2005)

801 N.Y.S.2d 837

AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HARTFORD, Appellant, v. ALFRED S. COOK et al., Respondents.

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

September 15, 2005.


Lahtinen, J.

In this appeal, we are presented with the legal question of whether an individual's homeowner's insurance policy affords coverage when that individual is sued for wrongful death after killing a person in self-defense. Disclosure is completed and there is little dispute regarding the underlying facts. On February 20, 2002, defendant Alfred S. Cook shot and killed Richard A. Barber (hereinafter decedent) after a disagreement over a business arrangement...

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