Mallouris v. Re Spec Corp.

SUMMARY ORDER

Familiarity by the parties is assumed as to the facts, the procedural context, and the specification of appellate issues. After undertaking de novo review of the district court judgment denying the cross-claim for indemnity, we now reverse.1

In a number of cases involving claims for common law indemnification on facts quite similar to those presented here, New York State courts have regularly distinguished between the vicarious liability imposed on a vehicle owner under § 388 of New York’s Vehicle and Traffic Law and the vicarious liability imposed on an employer under the…