ALBANY – A state law that was designed to ease a liability insurance crisis in New York continues to prevent the state from being held responsible in state Supreme Court for damages when it shares liability with private parties, the state’s highest court held Tuesday.
A divided Court of Appeals said that an exception in state Civil Practice Law and Rules (CPLR) 1601(1) against apportionment of state liability in actions in Supreme Court was arrived at in 1986, after a “painstaking balance of interests” by the state Legislature.
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