Cardone v. Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield

OPINION AND ORDER

BAER, District Judge.

This case arises from a 1993 public debate over the financial condition of New York’s major non-profit health insurance provider. The claims of plaintiff Albert A. Cardone grow out of his precipitous and not entirely voluntary resignation as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield in May 1993. A year later, Cardone sued Empire and sixteen of its current and former Directors (“Empire”), the New York Superintendent of Insurance Salvatore R. Curíale (“Curíale”), the law firm of Whitman, Breed, Abbott & Morgan, and John Does…