Opinion
Decided April 8, 1993
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department, Harold Tompkins, J.
Martin, Clearwater Bell, New York City (Barbara D. Goldberg of counsel), for Morton Thiokol, Inc., appellant-respondent.
Meyer, Suozzi, English Klein, P.C., Mineola (Bernard S. Meyer of counsel), Henry J. Cernitz, Garden City, and Hoffer Hoffer, New York City, for Avis Rent-A-Car System, Inc., appellant-respondent.
Vedder, Price, Kaufman, Kammholz Day, New York City (John H. Eickemeyer of counsel), for International Insurance Company, third-party defendant-appellant-respondent.
Siff Rosen, P.C., New York City (Ignatius John Melito and S. Dwight Stephens of counsel), for Zurich Insurance Company, respondent-appellant.
Speyer Perlberg, Melville (Dennis M. Perlberg and Gay H. Snyder of counsel), for Travelers Indemnity Company, respondent-appellant.
On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.4 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals (22 N.Y.CRR 500.4), order modified, with costs to defendants-appellants, and case remitted to Supreme Court, New York County, for further proceedings in accordance with the dissenting memorandum by Justice Joseph P. Sullivan at the Appellate Division ( 184 A.D.2d 454, 456-462). Certified question answered in the negative.
Concur: Chief Judge KAYE and Judges SIMONS, TITONE, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA. Taking no part: Judge SMITH.