East 51st Street Crane Collapse Litigation v. Lincoln General Insurance

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol R. Edmead, J.), entered March 4, 2011, which granted plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment declaring that defendant Lincoln General Insurance Company has a duty to defend East 51st Street Development Company, LLC (East 51st Street) and to reimburse Illinois Union Insurance Company for past defense costs in the underlying crane-collapse litigation from the date of the crane collapse (March 15, 2008) to the date that Lincoln General exhausted its policy limits, and so declared, granted plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment declaring that…