Opinion
Argued November 14, 1990
Decided December 18, 1990
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department, Daniel H. Prior, Jr., J.
Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Frederic L. Lieberman, O. Peter Sherwood, Lawrence S. Kahn and Rosalie J. Hronsky of counsel), for appellant.
Edward N. Costikyan, Carroll J. Mealey and Melissa T. Rosse for respondents.
Evan Wolfson, Kim J. Landsman, Debra Freeman and Harlan M. Mandel for Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. and others, amici curiae. Gregory Serio for Senator Guy J. Vellella, Chairman of the New York State Senate Committee on Insurance, amicus curiae.
Order affirmed, with costs, for the reasons stated in the opinion by Justice Howard A. Levine at the Appellate Division ( 154 A.D.2d 61).
Concur: Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA.