Belcher v. Government Employees Insurance

The present case requires this Court to determine whether, in line with the controversial procedure first announced in 1966 by the New York Court of Appeals in Seider v. Roth, 17 N.Y.2d 111, 216 N.E.2d 312, 269 N.Y.S.2d 99, the courts of this State may acquire jurisdiction in a personal injury action by attaching the obligations an insurance company has to an absent defendant as a policyholder under an automobile liability insurance contract. After careful consideration of the divergent opinion presented by counsel and the numerous courts and commentators who have addressed this issue, we…