Palmer v. Aliberti

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Esposito, J.), entered January 11, 2000, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the brief, denied plaintiffs motion for a default judgment against defendants-respondents and granted defendants-respondents’ cross motion to compel acceptance of their answer, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Although defendants-respondents promptly forwarded the complaint to their insurance carrier, their carrier, by reason of internal confusion in its legal department during a period of departmental reorganization, did not timely refer the complaint to…