State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Cordes

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Cordes

242 A.D.2d 635, 662 N.Y.S.2d 140, 1997 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 9066

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedSeptember 22, 1997

StatusPublished

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State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Cordes, 242 A.D.2d 635, 662 N.Y.S.2d 140, 1997 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 9066 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1997).

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In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 75, the petitioner appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (McCarty, J.), entered October 2, 1996, as awarded pre-arbitration award interest.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, the provision granting prearbitration award interest is deleted, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Nassau County, for entry of an appropriate amended judgment.

The court lacked the power to award pre-arbitration award interest (see, e.g., Matter of Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co. v Rosen, 233 AD2d 499). Bernstein v Allstate Ins. Co. (199 AD2d 358), relied upon by the respondents, is inapposite, since the parties stipulated in that case to resolve their dispute in the courts rather than by arbitration. Therefore, the power of the court to award pre-arbitration award interest was never in issue in that case. O’Brien, J. P., Sullivan, Goldstein and Luciano, JJ., concur.

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In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 75, the petitioner appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (McCarty, J.), entered October 2, 1996, as awarded pre-arbitration award interest.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, the provision granting prearbitration award interest is deleted, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Nassau County, for entry of an appropriate amended judgment.

The court lacked the power to award pre-arbitration award interest (see, e.g., Matter of Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co. v Rosen, 233 AD2d 499). Bernstein v Allstate Ins. Co. (199 AD2d 358), relied upon by the respondents, is inapposite, since the parties stipulated in that case to resolve their dispute in the courts rather than by arbitration. Therefore, the power of the court to award pre-arbitration award interest was never in issue in that case. O’Brien, J. P., Sullivan, Goldstein and Luciano, JJ., concur.

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242 A.D.2d 635, 662 N.Y.S.2d 140, 1997 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 9066, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/state-farm-mutual-automobile-insurance-v-cordes-nyappdiv-1997.

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