Case Name: Herbert Z. Bookstein, as Executor of Shirley Bookstein, Deceased, Respondent, v. Republic Insurance Company, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1999-11-23
Citations: 266 A.D.2d 113
Docket Number: 
Parties: Herbert Z. Bookstein, as Executor of Shirley Bookstein, Deceased, Respondent, v Republic Insurance Company, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 266
Pages: 113–113

Head Matter:
Herbert Z. Bookstein, as Executor of Shirley Bookstein, Deceased, Respondent, v Republic Insurance Company, Appellant.
[698 NYS2d 683]

Opinion:
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barry Cozier, J.), entered November 6, 1998, which granted plaintiffs motion for reargument and, upon reargument, denied defendant's previously granted motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
The motion court properly held that the tolling provision set forth in CPLR 208 applies in this case, and thus, the two-year suit limitation provision in the insurance policy was tolled until the insured's death on August 29, 1995. The mere execution of a power of attorney by the disabled insured to her son approximately -five years before she entered a nursing home did not function to deprive her of the protection to which she was entitled as a disabled person pursuant to the tolling provision (see, Stackrow v New York Prop. Ins. Underwriter's Assn., 115 AD2d 883). We have considered defendant's remaining contentions and find them unavailing. Concur — Ellerin, P. J., Rosenberger, Tom, Andrias and Buckley, JJ.