Bartholomew v. State of New York Insurance Department

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of the State Insurance Department which denied petitioner’s application for a license as an insurance broker. After a hearing held on February 25,1981, petitioner’s application for an insurance broker’s license was denied. In this proceeding, he complains that this determination blindly followed the previous denial of a similar application by the Insurance Department of the State of California, and collaterally estopped him from…