Continental Insurance v. AMAX Inc.

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Peter Tom, J.), entered August 31, 1992, which, inter alia, granted defendant AMAX’s motion to dismiss the action on the grounds of forum non conveniens, and order, same court and Justice, entered October 29, 1992, which denied plaintiff’s motion for renewal, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Notwithstanding the parties’ presence in New York and their execution here of the insurance contracts in issue, it was not an improvident exercise of the IAS Court’s discretion to dismiss this declaratory judgment action on forum non conveniens grounds, where the…