Bookstein v. Republic Insurance

266 A.D.2d 113, 698 N.Y.S.2d 683, 1999 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 12083

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: November 23, 1999
• Status: Published

Opinion

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barry Cozier, J.), entered November 6, 1998, which granted plaintiffs motion for reargument and, upon reargument, denied defendant’s previously granted motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The motion court properly held that the tolling provision set forth in CPLR 208 applies in this case, and thus, the two-year suit limitation provision in the insurance policy was tolled until the insured’s death on August 29, 1995. The mere execution of a power of attorney by the disabled insured to her son approximately -five years before she entered a nursing home did not function to deprive her of the protection to which she was entitled as a disabled person pursuant to the tolling provision (see, Stackrow v New York Prop. Ins. Underwriter’s Assn., 115 AD2d 883). We have considered defendant’s remaining contentions and find them unavailing. Concur — Ellerin, P. J., Rosenberger, Tom, Andrias and Buckley, JJ.