Healthway Med. Care, P.C. v Infinity Group, 2016 NY Slip Op 51780(U)(App. Term 2d Dept. 2016)
“Although defendant’s cross motion papers set forth facts demonstrating that its insured had made misrepresentations on his insurance application and, based on these facts, defendant had rescinded the insurance policy, ab initio, in accordance with Pennsylvania law, defendant’s submissions did not conclusively establish that plaintiff’s assignor (a passenger in the vehicle) was anything other than an innocent third party. Consequently, defendant’s cross motion failed to establish, prima facie, that the insurance policy was retroactively rescinded as to plaintiff’s assignor and, thus, that defendant was entitled to summary judgment dismissing the complaint as a matter of law.”
I have to say this. For a Court that seems to want to attack Rybak’s appellate practice, he has obtained quite a few reversals on these choice of law, policy violation and additional verification cases. I do not necessarily agree with the verification decisions but the amount of reversals is astonishing.
