First Metlife Investors Insurance Company v Filippino
Motion No: 2017-01587
Slip Opinion No: 2017 NY Slip Op 67620(U)
Decided on March 17, 2017
Appellate Division, Second Department, Motion Decision
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.


Supreme Court of the State of New York

Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M227833

E/afa

RUTH C. BALKIN, J.P.

JEFFREY A. COHEN

ROBERT J. MILLER

VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON, JJ.

2017-01587

First Metlife Investors Insurance Company,

plaintiff-respondent, v Erika Filippino, defendant-

respondent, Vivian Amato, etc., appellant.

(Index No. 101298/15)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant to stay First Metlife Investors Insurance Company, or anyone acting on its behalf, from distributing the proceeds of Insurance Policy No. 208177276FM to Erika Filippino, pending hearing and determination of an appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County, dated January 25, 2017.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed in opposition thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion is granted, and First Metlife Investors Insurance Company, or anyone acting on its behalf, is stayed from distributing the proceeds of Insurance Policy No. 208177276FM to Erika Filippino pending hearing and determination of the appeal on condition that the appeal is perfected on or before April 18, 2017; and it is further,

ORDERED that in the event the appeal is not perfected on or before April 18, 2017, the Court, on its own motion, may vacate the stay, without further notice, or the respondents may move to vacate the stay, on three days notice.

BALKIN, J.P., COHEN, MILLER and BRATHWAITE NELSON, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court