Triffin v. Cigna Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DREIER, P.J.A.D.

Plaintiff, Robert J. Triffin, appeals from a Special Civil Part summary judgment dismissing his complaint for payment of a draft of defendant Cigna Insurance Company transferred to plaintiff by a holder in due course after Cigna had stopped payment on the instrument.

The facts appear to be uncontroverted. The defaulting defendant, James Mills, received a draft in the amount of $484.12, dated July 7, 1993 from one of Cigna’s constituent companies, Atlantic Employers Insurance Company. The draft had been issued for workers’ compensation…