MATTER OF STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY v. CAMPBELL


44 A.D.3d 1059 (2007)

845 N.Y.S.2d 88

In the Matter of STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Respondent, v. GWENDOLYN CAMPBELL, Respondent. ALEXANDRE MOMPREMIER et al., Proposed Additional Respondents; ACCEPTANCE INDEMNITY INSURANCE COMPANY, Proposed Additional Appellant.

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

Decided October 30, 2007.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

An insurer who seeks to disclaim coverage on the ground of noncooperation "must demonstrate that it acted diligently in seeking to bring about the insured's co-operation ... that the efforts employed by the insurer were reasonably calculated to obtain the insured's co-operation ... and that the attitude of the insured, after his co-operation was sought, was one of `willful and avowed obstruction'" (Thrasher v United...

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