Legal Opinion

Seward Park Housing Corp. v. Greater New York Mutual Insurance

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided May 10, 2007PublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

Catterson, J.

In this insurance breach of contract action, we are asked to determine, inter alia, whether the insurance company’s denial of coverage constituted a repudiation of liability or a disclaimer of coverage, and thus, whether the plaintiff was obligated to comply with contract provisions in order to recover the replacement cost of a two-level parking garage that collapsed after a rainstorm on the Lower East Side at Grand Street and East Broadway.

The Seward Park residential cooperative apartment complex includes four high-rise apartment buildings and dozens of…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Continental Casualty Co. v. Rapid-American Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1993
  2. Ely-Cruikshank Co. v. Bank of MontrealNew York Court of Appeals · 1993
  3. New York Life Insurance v. ViglasSupreme Court of the United States · 1936
  4. Igbara Realty Corp. v. New York Property InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1984
  5. Brushton-Moira Central School District v. Fred H. Thomas Associates, P. C.New York Court of Appeals · 1998

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3Cited by25 opinions

  1. PB Americas Inc. v. Continental Casualty Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 2010
  2. City of Elmira v. Selective InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2011
  3. American Commercial Lines LLC v. Water Quality Insurance SyndicateCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2017
  4. DeGraw Constr. Group, Inc. v. HPDC2 Hous. Dev. Fund Co., Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2020
  5. Armstrong v. United Frontier Mut. Ins. Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2020

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