[DOWNLOAD] "Meat Corp. v. New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association" by Supreme Court of New York ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

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Title: Meat Corp. v. New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association
Author : Supreme Court of New York
Release Date : January 15, 1992
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 71 KB

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Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert E. White, J.), entered on or about July 2, 1991, in an action to recover on a fire insurance policy, which, granted defendant's motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs. Defendant insurer's burden of showing plaintiff insured's lack of cooperation while ""a heavy one indeed"" (Thrasher v United States Liab. Ins. Co. 19 N.Y.2d 159, 168), was met here upon proof of plaintiff's evasive or unsupported claims concerning the availability of various relevant items of information demanded by defendant, including the address of its accountant, the existence of other insurance policies and tax returns, and an inventory of damaged items. Plaintiff's persistent failure to fulfill its contractual and statutory obligation to cooperate warrants dismissal of the action (see Lentini Bros. Moving & Storage Co. v New York Prop. Ins. Underwriting Assn. 76 A.D.2d 759, 761, affd 53 N.Y.2d 835; (Pioneer Food Stores Coop. v Federal Ins. Co. 169 A.D.2d 430, 431-432).