NIACC, LLC v. Greenwich Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*884In an action to recover damages for breach of an insurance contract, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Galasso, J.), entered April 9, 2007, which denied its motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and granted the plaintiffs’ cross motion for summary judgment on the complaint.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The unambiguous terms of an insurance contract must be accorded their plain and ordinary meaning (see Teichman v Community Hosp. of TV Suffolk, 87 NY2d 514, 520 [1996]; Breed v Insurance Co. of N. Am., 46 NY2d 351, 355…
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