Legal Opinion
Arthur A. Johnson Corp. v. Indemnity Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 24, 1958PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBotein, P. J.
A problem of first impression in this State is presented by a controversy submitted under sections 546-548 of the Civil Practice Act. The question posed is whether, under an insurance policy assigning a fixed limit on coverage for ‘ ‘ each accident ”, a closely related series of events is properly viewed as a single accident, with consequent liability limitation, or as several accidents, with each accident a further multiple of liability. The agreed facts are as follows:
Plaintiffs, as contractors, were engaged in extending the platforms of the 23rd Street subway stations on the…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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- Saint Paul-Mercury Indemnity Company v. Calvin T. Rutland, Doing Business as Rutland Contracting CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955
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