Tuesday, November 20, 2007

The Highest Court

Where a carrier fails to timely request verification of an assignment of benefits, that carrier is precluded from contesting the validity of the assignment. Even when the assignment lacks the signature of the assignor. So sayeth the Court of Appeals today in Hospital for Joint Diseases v. Travelers Prop. Cas. Ins. Co., 2007 NY Slip Op 09067 (Ct. of App., 2007). While The Hon. Eugene F. Pigott, Jr. offers a dissent, six other Judges on the Court side with the majority opinion. The opinions serve as a concise primer on both sides of the issue.

This is, to be sure, a rather extreme result of the line of thinking originally set down by the Court of Appeals in Presbyterian Hosp. in City of N.Y. v. Maryland Cas. Co., 90 N.Y.2d 274 (1997). Nevertheless, the Court has obviously looked into the abyss of the last 10 years and still hasn't blinked.

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