Lurgi Metallurgie GmbH v. Industrial Risk Insurers

262 A.D.2d 75, 691 N.Y.S.2d 485, 1999 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6469

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: June 10, 1999
• Status: Published

Opinion

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Stanley Parness, J.), entered on or about June 16, 1998, which denied petitioner’s application to stay arbitration demanded by respondent, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The IAS Court correctly held that Nevada’s, rather than Colorado’s, statute should apply, Nevada being the location of the plant that was the subject of the construction contract between petitioner and respondent’s insured, the place where such contract was executed and in large part performed, and the place of petitioner’s alleged negligence and breach of contract (see, Insurance Co. v ABB Power Generation, 91 NY2d 180). We also agree that all of respondent’s claims are timely under Nevada’s statute. The IAS Court also correctly held that the arbitration is not barred by the antisubrogation rule, where petitioner, although named as an additional insured on respondent’s policy “as [its] interest may appear”, did not have an insurable interest in the primary insured’s property or profits, loss of which respondent now seeks to recover in the arbitration, but only in its own tools, labor and material furnished or owned by it (see, Tishman Co. v Carney & Del Guidice, 34 NY2d 941; S.S.D.W. Co. v Brisk Waterproofing Co., 76 NY2d 228, 234-235). Indeed, petitioner makes no showing that it sustained any pecuniary loss as a result of the fire at the plant it was building for respondent’s insured. Concur— Ellerin, P. J., Nardelli, Mazzarelli, Rubin and Saxe, JJ.