New York High Court Affirms Ruling Relieving Auto Insurers Of $20M In Claims

Mealey's (June 13, 2019, 2:24 PM EDT) -- ALBANY, N.Y. —New York’s highest court on June 11 affirmed an appeals court’s ruling that stood by a jury’s verdict that 54 New York automobile insurers and self-insurers are not responsible for paying $20 million in pending claims because a physician did not own and control the professional medical corporation under whose name he sought to collect first-party no-fault benefits from the insurers, finding that the lower court did not err in declining to give a jury charge that required a finding of fraudulent intent or conduct that was "tantamount to fraud" to reach its verdict in the insurers’ favor (Andrew Carothers, M.D., P.C. v. Progressive Insurance Company, No. 39, N.Y., App., 2019 N.Y. LEXIS 1641)....