Case Title: Gyabaah v Rivlab Transp. Corp.

Citation: 2013 NY Slip Op 08375

Docket Number: 

State: new-york

Court: New York Appellate Court

Date: 2013-12-17T00:00:00Z

Document:
Gyabaah v Rivlab Transp. Corp.

2013 NY Slip Op 08375

Decided on December 17, 2013

Court of Appeals

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

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.


Decided on December 17, 2013

No. 257 SSM 32
[*1]Adwoa Gyabaah, Respondent,
vRivlab Transportation Corp., Appellant, et al., Defendant, Jeffrey A. Aronsky, P.C. Nonparty-Respondent.

Submitted by Elizabeth Gelfand Kastner, for appellant.
Submitted by Barry Liebman, for respondent.
Submitted by Brian J. Isaac, for nonparty-respondent.


MEMORANDUM:
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs, and the certified question answered in the affirmative.
This action was not settled because the general release and the hold harmless [*2]agreement were never delivered to defendant, nor was the acceptance of the settlement offer otherwise communicated to defendant or its carrier (see White v Corlies, 46 NY 467, 469 [1871]).
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On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.11 of the Rules, order affirmed, with costs, and certified question answered in the affirmative, in a memorandum. Chief Judge Lippman and Judges Graffeo, Read, Smith, Pigott and Rivera concur. Judge Abdus-Salaam took no part.
Decided December 17, 2013