Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1993

Velez v. Commercial Union Insurance

Velez v. Commercial Union Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided October 1, 1993
197 A.D.2d 855; 604 N.Y.S.2d 865; 1993 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 9223
Velez v. Commercial Union Insurance

Opinion of the Court

—Judgment unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed without costs and judgment granted in accordance with the following Memorandum: The court should not have granted defendant’s motion dismissing the complaint but rather should have declared the rights of the parties (see, e.g., Pless v Town of Royalton, 185 AD2d 659, 660, affd 81 NY2d 1047). We modify the judgment, therefore, to reinstate the complaint and to declare that defendant has no duty to provide coverage for damages sustained by plaintiff, who was injured while a passenger in an automobile driven by the son of defendant’s insureds. (Appeal from Judgment of Supreme Court, Erie County, Doyle, Jr., J.—Dismiss Complaint.) Present—Callahan, J. P., Pine, Lawton, Doerr and Davis, JJ.

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