100 Motor Parkway Associates, LLC v. American Motorists Insurance

45 A.D.3d 550, 844 N.Y.S.2d 723

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: November 7, 2007
• Status: Published

Opinion

In an action for a judgment declaring that the defendants American Motorists Insurance Company and Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company are obligated to defend and indemnify the plaintiffs as additional insureds in an underlying action entitled Payne v 100 Motor Parkway Associates, LLC, pending in the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, under index No. 03-22469, the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Spinner, J.), dated April 3, 2006, which denied their motion for summary judgment.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

Summary judgment should only be granted if the pleadings, together with the affidavits, show that there are no triable issues of fact (see CPLR 3212; Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557, 562 [1980]; Alvarez v Prospect Hosp., 68 NY2d 320 [1986]). Failure to tender sufficient evidence to eliminate any triable issues of fact requires denial of the motion, regardless of the sufficiency of the opposing papers (see Winegrad v New York Univ. Med. Ctr., 64 NY2d at 853).

Here, contrary to the appellants’ contention, triable issues of fact exist, inter alia, as to the timeliness of the “their” notice of the claim to the respondents (see White v City of New York 81 NY2d 955 [1993]; SSBSS Realty Corp. v Public Serv. Mut. Ins. Co., 253 AD2d 583, 584 [1998]). Schmidt, J.P., Santucci, Krausman and McCarthy, JJ., concur.