Kone v Garden State Life Ins. Co.
2016 NY Slip Op 00745 [136 AD3d 422]
February 4, 2016
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 23, 2016


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 Bilal A. Kone, Respondent,
v
Garden State Life Insurance Company, Appellant.

Law Offices of Andrew J. Frisch, New York (Andrew J. Frisch of counsel), for appellant.

Wilkofsky, Friedman, Karel & Cummins, New York (Mark L. Friedman of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Ellen M. Coin, J.), entered December 18, 2014, which, inter alia, denied defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In this action alleging breach of contract and bad faith arising from defendant's failure to pay the proceeds of a life insurance policy, the record does not permit a determination as a matter of law that plaintiff failed to present defendant with due proof of the insured's death, as required by the policy. Concur—Saxe, J.P., Moskowitz, Richter and Feinman, JJ.