assembly Bill A1500

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Permits a plaintiff to recover directly against a third party defendant found to be liable to the defendant in certain actions

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Assembly Actions - Lowercase
Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 09, 2018 enacting clause stricken
committed to judiciary
Jan 03, 2018 ordered to third reading cal.112
May 25, 2017 advanced to third reading cal.488
May 23, 2017 reported
May 16, 2017 reported referred to codes
Jan 12, 2017 referred to judiciary

Multi-Sponsors

A1500 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S412
Current Committee:
Law Section:
Civil Practice Law and Rules
Laws Affected:
Add §1405, CPLR
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A2576, S2392
2011-2012: A630, S3761
2013-2014: A1002, S555
2015-2016: A251, S563
2019-2020: A2373, S6552
2021-2022: A3486, S5152
2023-2024: A2127, S5188

A1500 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits a plaintiff to recover directly against a third party defendant found to be liable to the defendant in certain actions.

A1500 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf


                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1500

                       2017-2018 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2017
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEINSTEIN  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  DINOWITZ, GALEF, GOTTFRIED -- 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 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:

  Section 1. The civil practice law and rules is amended by adding a new
section 1405 to read as follows:
  § 1405. PERMITTING PLAINTIFF, AS JUDGMENT CREDITOR AGAINST  DEFENDANT,
TO  RECOVER  AND  COLLECT  UNSATISFIED  JUDGMENT  OR PORTION OF JUDGMENT
AGAINST THIRD-PARTY DEFENDANT OR CO-DEFENDANT LIABLE FOR CONTRIBUTION OR
INDEMNIFICATION. (A) WHERE A PLAINTIFF HAS ENTERED A JUDGMENT AGAINST  A
DEFENDANT  AND THE JUDGMENT REMAINS UNSATISFIED THIRTY DAYS AFTER IT HAS
BEEN SERVED ON THE DEFENDANT-JUDGMENT DEBTOR,  AND  WHERE  JUDGMENT  HAS
BEEN  ENTERED IN FAVOR OF THE DEFENDANT-JUDGMENT DEBTOR AGAINST A CO-DE-
FENDANT OR THIRD-PARTY DEFENDANT ON A CAUSE OF ACTION  FOR  CONTRIBUTION
OR FOR CONTRACTUAL OR COMMON LAW INDEMNIFICATION, THE PLAINTIFF-JUDGMENT
CREDITOR  MAY COLLECT ANY UNSATISFIED AMOUNT OF THE PLAINTIFF'S JUDGMENT
AGAINST THE DEFENDANT FROM THE CO-DEFENDANT OR THIRD-PARTY DEFENDANT  UP
TO  THE AMOUNT AWARDED ON THE CAUSE OF ACTION FOR CONTRIBUTION OR INDEM-
NIFICATION.
  (B) WHERE THE PLAINTIFF'S JUDGMENT  REMAINS  UNSATISFIED  THIRTY  DAYS
AFTER IT HAS BEEN SERVED ON THE DEFENDANT-JUDGMENT DEBTOR, AND WHERE THE
DEFENDANT-JUDGMENT  DEBTOR HAS A CAUSE OF ACTION FOR CONTRIBUTION OR FOR
CONTRACTUAL OR COMMON LAW INDEMNIFICATION WHICH HAS NOT BEEN REDUCED  TO
JUDGMENT, THE PLAINTIFF-JUDGMENT CREDITOR MAY ATTACH, OR TAKE AN ASSIGN-
MENT  FROM  THE  DEFENDANT-JUDGMENT  DEBTOR  OF, THE CAUSE OF ACTION FOR
CONTRIBUTION OR INDEMNIFICATION, AND PROSECUTE THE CAUSE  OF  ACTION  IN
THE  PLAINTIFF'S  OWN  NAME  OR  IN  THE  NAME OF THE DEFENDANT-JUDGMENT

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.