La Candelaria East Harlem Community Center, Inc. v. First American Title Insurance Co.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Jeffrey K. Oing, J.), entered May 16, 2016, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

There is no triable issue of fact as to whether nonparty Triad Abstract Ltd. had actual authority to enter into an escrow agreement with plaintiff-appellant which had nothing to do with the clearance of a title defect (see generally Standard Funding Corp. v Lewitt, 89 NY2d 546, 550 [1997] [“Lewitt was expressly authorized only to issue insurance policies and to receive and collect premiums;…