Opinion

Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc. v. Hartford Insurance

  • 203 A.D.2d 83
  • 610 N.Y.S.2d 219
  • 1994 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3815
Court
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Filed
Apr 12, 1994
Status
Published
Author
Kupferman
On the bench
Kupferman
Cited by
48 cases

stating that the phrase “arising out of’ in the context of an additional insured clause in an insurance policy “focuses not upon the precise cause of the accident ... but upon the general nature of the operation in the course of which the injury was sustained”

How later courts described this case

  • stating that the phrase “arising out of’ in the context of an additional insured clause in an insurance policy “focuses not upon the precise cause of the accident ... but upon the general nature of the operation in the course of which the injury was sustained”
  • noting that the phrase “arising out of’ in the context of an additional insured clause in an insurance policy “focuses not upon the precise cause of the accident ... but upon the general nature of the operation in the course of which the injury was sustained”
  • stating that phrase "focuses not upon the precise cause of the accident ... but upon the general nature of the operation in the course of which the injury was sustained”
  • “The fact that the cause of the injury may have been [the additional insured’s] fault, or due to [the additional insured’s] negligence, is immaterialf.]”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Kupferman, J.,

dissents and would affirm for the reasons stated by Greenfield, J.

This is a copy of a public record, reproduced as it was published. It is not legal advice, and it may not be the version a court would rely on. Check the official source before you cite it.

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