Halstead Oil Co. v. Northern Insurance

— Judgment unanimously reversed on the law without costs and judgment granted, in accordance with the following Memorandum: Plaintiff, Halstead Oil Company, brought this action seeking a declaration that defendant insurers are obligated to defend plaintiff in a lawsuit brought by the State of New York to recover money damages expended by the State to clean up the site of a gasoline leak from plaintiff’s tanks. Plaintiff also seeks a declaration that defendants are obligated to indemnify plaintiff against any moneys recovered in the action by the State and by Mobil Oil Company, which asserted…