New York Supreme Court June 8, 1956 (Congemi v. Silverman)

Benjamin Brenner, J.

I believe it to be evidence of bad faith on the part of a casualty insurance company to decline upon pretrial to make an offer against a demand of $7,500 in an action by an infant eleven years of age, the tip of whose finger was fractured and amputated by a rapidly closing self-service elevator door.