Abbey Richmond Ambulance Service, Inc. v. Northbrook Property & Casualty Insurance

—In an action for a judgment declaring that the defendants are obligated to defend and indemnify the plaintiff in an action entitled Nichols v Abbey Richmond Ambulance Serv., pending in the Supreme Court, Westchester County, under Index No. 6427/96, the defendants appeal from a judgment of the same court (Donovan, J.), entered September 14, 2000, which, inter alia, made the declaration.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

“ ‘An insured’s good faith belief in nonliability, when reasonable under the circumstances, may excuse a delay in notifying his * * * insurer of an accident’ ”…