Case Name: In the Matter of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Appellant, v. Serafina DeCaro, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1997-11-17
Citations: 244 A.D.2d 487
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Appellant, v Serafina DeCaro, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 244
Pages: 487–487

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Appellant, v Serafina DeCaro, Respondent.
[665 NYS2d 910]

Opinion:
—In a proceeding, inter alia, pursuant to CPLR 7503 for a temporary stay of arbitration of an underinsured motorist claim, the petitioner appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Dunne, J.), dated October 31, 1996, as denied that branch of the petition which was for a temporary stay of arbitration.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying that branch of the petition which was for a temporary stay of arbitration. The record indicates that the petitioner-insurance carrier had ample time to seek discovery of the respondent-insured as provided for in the underlying insurance policy, but that it unjustifiably failed to do so in that time (see, Matter of Allstate Ins. Co. v Urena, 208 AD2d 623; Matter of Allstate Ins. Co. v Nebedum, 208 AD2d 624; cf., Matter of Metropolitan Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co. v Keeney, 241 AD2d 455; Matter of MVAIC [Lucash], 16 AD2d 975, 976). Mangano, P. J., Copertino, Joy and Florio, JJ., concur.