STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7493
 
                               2003-2004 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     March 25, 2003
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        Introduced by M. of A. WEINSTEIN, SEDDIO, ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by --
          M. of A. BRENNAN, CLARK, A. COHEN, COOK, DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED, KAUFMAN,
          KLEIN,  LAFAYETTE,  LAVELLE, MILLMAN, SANDERS, SIDIKMAN -- (at request
          of the Office of Court Administration) -- read once  and  referred  to
          the Committee on Judiciary
 
        AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to permit-
          ting  a  plaintiff  in  a  tort  case to recover against a third party
          defendant in certain cases
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The civil practice law and rules is amended by adding a new
     2  section 1405 to read as follows:
     3    §  1405.  Permitting  plaintiff  to  obtain  an indirect tort recovery
     4  against a third party defendant in  certain  cases.  Either  a  judgment
     5  creditor or a judgment debtor may recover on a judgment for contribution
     6  or  indemnification regardless of whether the judgment debtor has satis-
     7  fied the underlying judgment for which contribution  or  indemnification
     8  is  sought.  Where  such underlying judgment is unsatisfied, any payment
     9  made by the contributing or indemnifying party shall be made directly to
    10  the judgment creditor.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    12  ing  the  date on which it shall have become a law, and shall apply only
    13  to actions commenced on or after such date.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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