Zacarias v. Allstate Insurance

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

VERNIERO, J.

In this declaratory judgment action, plaintiff seeks indemnification from defendant insurer in connection with a suit brought against him by his wife for injuries sustained in a boating accident. Specifically, plaintiff asks that we set aside the intra-family exclusion in his boatowner’s insurance policy. The trial court ruled in favor of the insurer. A divided panel of the Appellate Division likewise denied plaintiff his requested relief, concluding that the exclusion was plainly written and thus valid. We agree and affirm.

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Plaintiff owned…