6 Cited authorities

  1. Home Insurance v. American Home Products Corp.

    75 N.Y.2d 196 (N.Y. 1990)   Cited 236 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Referring to punitive damages as “a sort of hybrid between a display of ethical indignation and the imposition of a criminal fine”
  2. Cragg v. Allstate Indemnity Corporation

    2011 N.Y. Slip Op. 4767 (N.Y. 2011)   Cited 122 times

    No. 118. Argued May 4, 2011. decided June 9, 2011. APPEAL, by permission of the Court of Appeals, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Fourth Judicial Department, entered May 7, 2010. The Appellate Division affirmed a judgment (denominated order) of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Patrick H. NeMoyer, J.), which had granted defendant Allstate Indemnity Corporation's motion for summary judgment declaring that it had no obligation to defend or indemnify defendant insureds

  3. Pioneer Tower v. State Farm Fire

    2009 N.Y. Slip Op. 3409 (N.Y. 2009)   Cited 121 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Concluding that "both plaintiff's and defendant's readings of the clauses are reasonable" and therefore interpreting an earth movement exclusion narrowly
  4. Home Ins. Co. v. American Home Products Corp.

    902 F.2d 1111 (2d Cir. 1990)   Cited 31 times
    Holding that indemnification by excess liability insurer for punitive damages imposed on drug manufacturer contrary to public policy
  5. Highrise Hoisting & Scaffolding, Inc. v. Liberty Ins. Underwriters, Inc.

    116 A.D.3d 647 (N.Y. App. Div. 2014)   Cited 3 times

    2014-04-29 HIGHRISE HOISTING & SCAFFOLDING, INC., Plaintiff–Respondent, v. LIBERTY INSURANCE UNDERWRITERS, INC., et al., Defendants, RSUI Indemnity Company, Defendant–Appellant, Jamilah Duvall, et al., Defendants–Respondents. Hardin, Kundla, McKeon & Poletto, P.A., New York (George R. Hardin of counsel), for appellant. Montfort, Healy, McGuire & Salley, Garden City (Michael A. Baranowicz of counsel), for Highrise Hoisting & Scaffolding, Inc., respondent. TOM Hardin, Kundla, McKeon & Poletto, P.A

  6. Lexington Ins. Co. v. Western Pennsylvania Hospital

    318 F. Supp. 2d 270 (W.D. Pa. 2004)   Cited 10 times
    Applying Pennsylvania law