Gaston v. AMERICAN TRANSIT INSURANCE COMPANY

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be modified, without costs, by denying plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and, as so modified, affirmed.

In this Insurance Law § 3420 action, defendant insurer should not have been collaterally estopped from litigating the issue of whether the car that collided with the bus in which the injured plaintiffs were traveling was insured on the date of the accident. Three prior judgments involving different parties’ claims arising from the same bus accident were submitted to the court. The plaintiffs * proffered two…