Legal Opinion
Ford v. Unity Hospital
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 7, 1973PublishedCited by 191 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBurke, J.
The issue on this appeal is whether the unauthorized act of a foreign insurance agent in delivering into this State a cover letter for a policy which was both beyond the scope of and in direct cpntravention of its agency agreement is sufficient under due process standards to subject its principal, a non-domiciliary insurer having no other contacts with New York, to the jurisdiction of our courts pursuant to section 59-a of the Insurance Law. In our opinion, it is not.
The opinions of the courts below establish the following as undisputed facts for purposes of this appeal. Third-party defendant…
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