American Home Assurance Co. v. Levy

OPINION OF THE COURT

Alan D. Oshrin, J.

This is a declaratory judgment action brought by American Home Assurance Company (American Home), the insurance company that issued a social worker’s professional liability policy to the defendant Richard Levy (hereinafter Levy), a licensed social worker, that contained a limiting coverage in cases involving claims of sexual misconduct to $25,000. The plaintiff seeks to have the court enforce the sexual misconduct provision of the policy and thereby permitting the plaintiff to discontinue the defense of the defendant Levy in the underlying action after it…