New York First Department’s Message to Insureds: An Equitable Defense Concerning A Policy Exclusion Cannot Be Decided By Motion Practice

206-208 Main St. Assocs. d/b/a/ Sutphin Blvd., LLC v. Arch Ins. Co.
(N.Y. App. Ct., 1st Dept. May 2, 2013)
A New York appellate court recently held that the issue of whether an insurer was equitably estopped from raising an earth movement exclusion as a defense to coverage two years after it had assumed the purported additional insured’s defense was an issue for the trier of fact.

The plaintiff, 206-208 Main Street Associates, Inc. d/b/a 8930 Sutphin Blvd., LLC hired defendant H & H …

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