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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

237 W. 230 Street Realty Corp., Plaintiff, v Castle Oil Corporation et al., Respondents, Trans Service Corporation, Appellant, et al., Defendants.
    [828 NYS2d 155]
   In an action to recover property damages resulting from the discharge of petroleum, the defendant Trans Service Corporation appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (O’Connell, J.), entered March 3, 2005, as granted that branch of the motion of the defendants Castle Oil Corporation and Old Republic Insurance Co. which was for summary judgment on their cross claim for indemnification against the defendant Trans Service Corporation.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

As the Supreme Court correctly determined, the defendants Castle Oil Corporation (hereinafter Castle) and Old Republic Insurance Co. demonstrated their prima facie entitlement to summary judgment by establishing that the agreement between Castle and the defendant Trans Service Corporation (hereinafter Trans Service) unambiguously required the latter to indemnify Castle even if Castle was negligent and that, in any event, Castle was free of negligence in the incident giving rise to the plaintiffs claim in this action (see Margolin v New York Life Ins. Co., 32 NY2d 149, 153 [1973]; Levine v Shell Oil Co., 28 NY2d 205, 211-212 [1971]; New York Tel. Co. v Gulf Oil Corp., 203 AD2d 26, 28 [1994]). In opposition, Trans Service failed to raise a triable issue of fact (see Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557 [1980]). Crane, J.P., Ritter, Lunn and Covello, JJ., concur.