Gruenspecht v Balboa Ins. Co.

Gruenspecht v Balboa Ins. Co. 2012 NY Slip Op 01769 Decided on March 13, 2012 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on March 13, 2012
Saxe, J.P., Sweeny, Freedman, Manzanet-Daniels, JJ.
7069 114848/10

[*1]Mark Gruenspecht, Plaintiff-Respondent,

v

Balboa Insurance Company, et al., Defendants-Appellants.




White & McSpedon, P.C., New York (Joseph W. Sands of
counsel), for appellants.
Heller, Horowitz & Feit, P.C., New York (Stuart A. Blander of
counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard F. Braun, J.), entered September 6, 2011, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint in its entirety, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Accepting the allegations in the complaint as true and resolving all inferences in plaintiff's favor on this motion to dismiss (see generally Leon v Martinez, 84 NY2d 83, 87 [1994]), the complaint sufficiently states a cause of action for recovery of consequential damages arising from defendants' failure to adjust and pay plaintiff's claim for flood damage to his home in a timely and good-faith manner (see Bi-Economy Mkt., Inc. v Harleysville Ins. Co. of N.Y., 10 NY3d 187, 192-193 [2008]). Defendant was aware that plaintiff had received an offer on his house and that without prompt funding of the repairs needed the offer on the property would be lost (id.).

We have considered defendants' remaining contentions and
find them unavailing.

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER
OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.

ENTERED: MARCH 13, 2012

CLERK