Rago v. Nationwide Insurance

The third-party complaints state valid causes of action for indemnification and contribution. Moreover, it appears that the defendants’ delays in initiating the third-party actions were not attributable to a lack of diligence but to the difficulties inherent in identifying the various ownership interests involved in the shopping mall where the accident giving rise to the main action occurred. Inasmuch as the factual and legal issues raised by the third-party actions are not overly complex and are closely related to the questions involved in the underlying action, the denial of a severance was…