Griffith Oil Co., Inc. v National Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa. (2009 NY Slip Op 09732)

Griffith Oil Co., Inc. v National Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa.

2009 NY Slip Op 09732 [68 AD3d 1621]

December 30, 2009

Appellate Division, Fourth Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

As corrected through Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Griffith Oil Company, Inc., et al., Appellants, v National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., Respondent, et al., Defendants. (Appeal No. 1.)

—[*1] Knauf Shaw LLP, Rochester (Alan J. Knauf of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants. Goldberg Segalla LLP, Albany (Matthew S. Lerner of counsel) and Law Offices of Beth Zaro Green, Brooklyn, for defendant-respondent.

Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, D.C., Chamberlain D'Amanda Oppenheimer & Greenfield LLP, Rochester (K. Wade Eaton of counsel), for Complex Insurance Claims Litigation Association, amicus curiae. Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C., New York City (John G. Nevius of counsel), for United Policyholders, amicus curiae.

Appeal from a judgment (denominated order) of the Supreme Court, Monroe County (Harold L. Galloway, J.), entered March 26, 2008 in a declaratory judgment action. The judgment granted the motion of defendant National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. for partial summary judgment and denied that part of the cross motion of plaintiffs for summary judgment.

It is hereby ordered that said appeal is unanimously dismissed without costs (see Loafin' Tree Rest. v Pardi [appeal No. 1], 162 AD2d 985 [1990]). Present—Scudder, P.J., Hurlbutt, Peradotto, Green and Gorski, JJ.