Actrade Liquidation Trust v. Greenwich Insurance (In Re Actrade Financial Technologies, Ltd.)

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the Court of Appeals in Mangini cited multiple cases “where the Courts held that the fact that the settlement agreements contained recitals regarding particular claims limited the general words of a release to the claims that were within the parties’ contemplation”
• applying the “principle of New York law that a release, general on its face, will be limited to those claims within the contemplation of the parties at the time”
• “It is [] a firm principle of New York law that it is less likely that claims are covered by a general release if they are unknown at the time of the release.”

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