Opinion
6067 Index 161864/13
03-22-2018
Anthony PEREIRA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. J.P. MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., et al., Defendants–Appellants, All Counties Snow Removal Corp., Defendant–Respondent, New York Plumbing–Heating–Cooling Corp., Defendant. J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al., Third–Party Plaintiffs–Appellants, All Counties Snow Removal Corp., Third Party Plaintiff–Respondent, v. Rigged Rite, Inc., Third Party Defendant.
White Fleischner & Fino, LLP, New York (Alisa Dultz of counsel), for appellants. Westermann Sheehy Keenan Samaan & Aydelott, LLP, Uniondale (Michael F. McGowan of counsel), for respondent.
White Fleischner & Fino, LLP, New York (Alisa Dultz of counsel), for appellants.
Westermann Sheehy Keenan Samaan & Aydelott, LLP, Uniondale (Michael F. McGowan of counsel), for respondent.
Tom, J.P., Webber, Oing, Moulton, JJ.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert D. Kalish, J.) entered March 29, 2017, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied defendants/third-party plaintiffs J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s (Chase) motion for summary judgment on their cross claim for contractual indemnification against codefendant/third-party plaintiff All Counties Snow Removal, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The motion court correctly determined that the language of the indemnification provision of these parties' contract was ambiguous. Therefore, Chase failed to establish its prima facie entitlement to summary judgment on the issue of contractual indemnification (see e.g. Paz v. Singer Co., 151 A.D.2d 234, 542 N.Y.S.2d 10 [1st Dept. 1989] ).