Legal Opinion
General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corp. v. North American Systems, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 19, 1997PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court *921(Harris, J.), entered April 24, 1996 in Albany County, upon a decision of the court in favor of plaintiffs.
Plaintiff General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corporation, Ltd. investigated the cause of a fire occurring at the home of Charles St. Louis and Betty St. Louis (hereinafter collectively referred to as plaintiffs) which was believed to have been caused by a defectively designed "Mr. Coffee” automatic coffeemaker which had an analogue timer. After reimbursing plaintiffs for the damage to their property, General Accident became subrogated to…
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