New England Mutual Life Insurance v. Detectives' Endowment Ass'n

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Martin Stecher, J.), entered on March 1, 1990, which granted plaintiff’s motion to set aside a jury verdict as to damages and directed a new trial solely on the issue of damages, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff seeks in this action to recover $118,430 in insurance premiums, plus interest, which, it alleged, it was due for dental insurance coverage which it supplied to the members of defendant Detectives’ Endowment Association (DEA), a municipal union, and its affiliates. At trial, it emerged that, according to the bid which had been…