Imperial Casualty & Indemnity Co. v. Bellini

OPINION

Chief Justice WILLIAMS,

for the Court.

Michael DeSantis could not have known, as the stair he was descending collapsed beneath him, that he would fall into two decades of litigation. DeSantis’s injury went uncompensated while a now-defunct corporation, a real estate buyer/seller, and a struggling insurance company battled the question of who was responsible to satisfy DeSantis’s negligence judgment. Some twenty years later, we conclude that there is in fact a cushion for DeSantis’s long-ago fall.

I

Facts and Travel

We first address the somewhat complicated procedural history of this ease,…