N.Y. Federal Judge Stays Summary Judgment Motions in Reinsurance Case

NEW YORK — A New York federal judge has stayed pending summary judgment motions in a reinsurance dispute involving a 2008 deadly trucking accident and directed the parties to appear before him at a Jan. 8 conference to discuss a trial schedule.

In a Nov. 29 order, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York stayed Endurance Assurance Corp.’s motion for summary judgment and Florists Mutual Insurance Co.’s motion for partial summary judgment.

Florists' issued a business auto insurance policy and an umbrella policy to Nurserymen's Exchange Inc. In January 2010, …