Case Name: Commissioners of the State Insurance Fund, Plaintiffs, v. Tom L. La Mere & Associates, Inc., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. The Young Agency, Third-Party Defendant-Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2006-07-07
Citations: 31 A.D.3d 1181
Docket Number: 
Parties: Commissioners of the State Insurance Fund, Plaintiffs, v Tom L. La Mere & Associates, Inc., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. The Young Agency, Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 31
Pages: 1181–1182

Head Matter:
Commissioners of the State Insurance Fund, Plaintiffs, v Tom L. La Mere & Associates, Inc., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. The Young Agency, Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.
[818 NYS2d 714]

Opinion:
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Onondaga County (Anthony J. Paris, J.), entered May 26, 2005. The order, insofar as appealed from, denied the cross motion of third-party defendant for summary judgment dismissing the third-party complaint.
It is hereby ordered that the order insofar as appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously reversed on the law without costs, the cross motion is granted and the third-party complaint is dismissed.
Memorandum: We agree with third-party defendant that Supreme Court erred in denying its cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the third-party complaint, for indemnification. Indemnification does not lie in the third-party action because plaintiff is suing defendant for its alleged breach of the insurance contract and is not seeking to hold it vicariously liable for any negligence on the part of third-party defendant (see Edgewater Constr. Co. v 81 & 3 of Watertown, 252 AD2d 951, 952-953 [1998], lv denied 92 NY2d 814 [1998]). Present—Kehoe, J.P., Gorski, Martoche, Pine and Hayes, JJ.