N.Y. Judge To Insurer Time Limit Defense Won't Work
NU Online News Service, May 10, 2:06 p.m. EDT?A New York judge ruling in a $4.3 million hospital malpractice case has rejected an insurer's argument that the claim was automatically barred by longstanding time limit requirements.[@@]
The insurer, Royal & Sun Alliance, said last week it had made no decision on whether to appeal the April 28 ruling by then Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice James M. Catterson, in Riverhead, N.Y. who declared that the insurer had failed "to recognize the turning of the tide" in legal opinion.
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