Rice v. Cayuga-Onondaga Healthcare Plan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Boehm, J.
In this case, we are called upon to determine whether a cooperative self-insurance plan, formed by several school districts pursuant to article 5-G of the General Municipal Law, is an independent legal entity amenable to suit. We conclude that it is not.
I
The facts in this declaratory judgment action are largely undisputed. In 1981, several school districts in the Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES region entered into a cooperative agreement, forming defendant Cayuga-Onondaga Area Schools Employees’ Health Care Plan (Plan), "to jointly provide basic hospital, surgical, major…
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