Travelers Insurance v. Lianides

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Emily Goodman, J.), entered September 19, 1997, which denied petitioner insurer’s application to stay arbitration of respondents’ uninsured motorist claim, and dismissed the petition, unanimously modified, on the law and the facts, to direct that the injured respondent comply with petitioner’s disclosure demands, and to stay arbitration as to the uninjured respondent, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

While respondents did not notify petitioner of their intention to make an uninsured motorist claim until October 1996, five and a half years after…