Allstate Insurance v. Sala

Order, Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Harry Seidell, J.), entered on or about January 24,1995, which, inter alia, denied petitioner’s application to stay arbitration of respondent’s underinsurance claim, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The IAS Court correctly rejected petitioner’s argument that respondent failed to comply with the policy’s underinsured coverage notice provisions. Respondent notified petitioner of the accident immediately after it happened, pursuant to a request for first-party benefits, but could not at that or any other time prior to the the jury’s verdict in the personal…