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· 7/2/2002

Slayko v. Security Mutual Insurance

Citations

  • 774 N.E.2d 208
  • 98 N.Y.2d 289
  • 746 N.Y.S.2d 444
  • 2002 N.Y. LEXIS 1902

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “[W]hen statutes and Insurance Department regulations are silent, we are reluctant to inhibit freedom of contract by finding insurance policy clauses violative of public policy.”
  • courts \are reluctant to inhibit freedom of contract by finding insurance policy clauses violative of public policy\
  • “Cases involving auto insurance coverage-an area in which the contractual relationship and many of its terms are prescribed by law-provide a weak basis for generalization about ... other insurance contracts.”
  • “more than a causal connection between the intentional act and the resultant harm is required to prove that the harm was intended” under an intentional acts exclusion

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Judges: Kaye

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