Legal Opinion
SPECIALTY NAT. INS. v. English Bros. Funeral Home
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 30, 2009No. 07-civ-7507 (SHS)PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SIDNEY H. STEIN, District Judge.
Plaintiff Specialty National Insurance Company (“Specialty”) brings this action seeking a declaratory judgment that, despite having issued insurance policies to defendant English Brothers Funeral Home, it has no duty to defend or indemnify its insured in a series of lawsuits filed against English Brothers relating to the alleged unlawful harvesting of human body parts from corpses entrusted to defendant for burial. English Brothers, for its part, contends that each of the suits filed against it raises at least some claims — and therefore provides some…
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