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Sherland & Farrington, Inc., Respondent, v Thomas R. Meaney et al., Individually and Doing Business as Edward E. Hall & Co., Respondents, and General Accident Insurance Company of America, Appellant.
    [599 NYS2d 963]
   —Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol E. Huff, J.), entered April 17, 1992, which denied defendant-appellant’s motion pursuant to CPLR 3212 for summary judgment dismissing plaintiff’s complaint and codefendants’ cross-claims, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In this action alleging failure to procure insurance coverage, defendant-insurer did not meet its burden of setting forth evidentiary facts warranting dismissal as a matter of law, as the affidavit of codefendant’s president and defendant-appellant’s letter of April 24, 1985 presented issues of fact as to whether codefendant-broker was empowered to act as the insurer’s agent to bind the coverage herein. Concur—Sullivan, J. P., Rosenberger, Asch and Rubin, JJ.