Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co. v. Vaszil

Opinion

KATZ, J.

The sole issue in this certified appeal is whether the Appellate Court properly determined that the residential lease in question created a right of subro-gation and a consequent obligation by the tenant to the landlord’s insurance company for a fire loss that the tenant allegedly had caused to the landlord’s apartment building. The plaintiff, the Middlesex Mutual Assurance Company, brought this action in subrogation of the right of its insured, Hunting Lodge Partners, LLC (Hunting), to compensation from the defendants Brian Vaszil and Robert Vaszil.1 The trial court rendered…