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Sylvia Katz et al., Plaintiffs, v City of New York, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent, et al., Defendant. Anthony Grace and Sons, Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.
    [610 NYS2d 521]
   —Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Walter Tolub, J., on the decision of Eugene Nardelli, J.), entered July 12, 1993, which, insofar as appealed from, awarded indemnification in favor of third-party plaintiff against third-party defendant, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Third-party defendant’s challenge to third-party plaintiff’s claim for indemnification is based on the doctrine of preindemnification squarely rejected by the Court of Appeals in North Star Reins. Corp. v Continental Ins. Co. (82 NY2d 281, 291-294). Nor should third-party plaintiff’s failure to timely notify its insurer of plaintiff’s underlying claim, resulting in the loss of its own insurance coverage, defeat its separate right to indemnification. Third-party defendant’s insurer received a premium to insure against the very risk upon which plaintiff recovered judgment, and its liability therefor should not be shared with a party who is only vicariously liable, regardless of whether that party has received or is entitled to receive any insurance proceeds on account of the judgment (supra, at 293-294). We have considered third-party defendant’s other claims and find them to be without merit. Concur —Murphy, P. J., Sullivan, Carro, Wallach and Asch, JJ.