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For January 22, 2021 through January 28, 2021, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

COLUMBIA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL v HINDS (188 AD3d 1337):
3rd Dept. App. Div. order of 11/5/20; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Court of Appeals, 1/7/21; Insurance--Liability Insurance--Whether employer hospital was entitled to receive cash consideration resulting from the demutualization of an insurance fund where the employer purchased the insurance policy and paid all the premiums but were the employee is named as the sole insured on the policy; whether employee is unjustly enriched by the receipt of the cash consideration resulting from demutualization of insurance fund; Supreme Court, Columbia County, inter alia, granted defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint; App. Div. affirmed.

REVIS v SCHWARTZ (— AD3d —, 2020 NY Slip Op 08094):
2nd Dept. App. Div. order of 12/30/20; affirmance with two-Justice dissent; Arbitration--Matters Arbitrable--Whether plaintiff Darrelle Revis and defendant Neil Schwartz agreed to arbitrate the threshold question of the arbitrability of their dispute; whether the nonsignatory defendants are entitled to compel arbitration; Supreme Court, Westchester County, granted defendants' motion to compel arbitration and to stay the action pending completion of arbitration; App. Div. affirmed.