Legal Opinion
Guri v. Atlanta International Insurance
Civil Court of the City of New York
Decided August 6, 1996PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Judith J. Gische, J.
This motion raises the novel issue about whether a postjudg*953ment agreement assigning a defendant’s right to reimbursement from a third-party defendant is void as against the public policy of the Workers’ Compensation Law where the original plaintiff and the third-party defendant are employee and employer. The material facts, although complicated, are not in dispute.
In 1981 Theodore Crawford was severely injured while he was performing demolition work as an employee of B.C. Enterprises, Inc. Mr. Crawford was precluded by the Workers’ Compensation Law from…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Dole v. Dow Chemical Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1972
- Andre v. PomeroyNew York Court of Appeals · 1974
- Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. WesolowskiNew York Court of Appeals · 1973
- Hartford Insurance v. County of NassauNew York Court of Appeals · 1979
- Billy v. Consolidated Machine Tool Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1980
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Guri v. Atlanta International InsuranceAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1997