Case Name: Pacific Employer's Insurance Company, Appellant, v. United Talmudical Academy, Respondent, et al., Defendant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1996-05-21
Citations: 227 A.D.2d 304
Docket Number: 
Parties: Pacific Employer’s Insurance Company, Appellant, v United Talmudical Academy, Respondent, et al., Defendant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 227
Pages: 304–305

Head Matter:
Pacific Employer’s Insurance Company, Appellant, v United Talmudical Academy, Respondent, et al., Defendant.
[642 NYS2d 319]

Opinion:
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Elliott Wilk, J.), entered June 9, 1995, which, after a nonjury trial, declared that plaintiff is obligated to defend and indemnify defendant-respondent in a certain pending action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The record supports the trial court's finding that defendant, a religious institution that operates 13 schools in the region, had a practice, condoned by plaintiff, based on the frequency of injury-causing incidents in its schools, that it need not report an incident of this type until a summons was served, thus excusing the 16-month delay between the incident and the notice defendant gave plaintiff promptly after it was sued (see, Mighty Midgets v Centennial Ins. Co., 47 NY2d 12, 19; White v City of New York, 81 NY2d 955, 957). Concur — Sullivan J. P., Milonas, Rubin, Tom and Mazzarelli, JJ.