Declaratory judgment
§ 3001. Declaratory judgment. The supreme court may render a declaratory judgment having the effect of a final judgment as to the rights and other legal relations of the parties to a justiciable controversy whether or not further relief is or could be claimed. If the court declines to render such a judgment it shall state its grounds. A party who has brought a claim for personal injury or wrongful death against another party may maintain a declaratory judgment action directly against the insurer of such other party, as provided in paragraph six of subsection (a) of section three thousand four hundred twenty of the insurance law.
The Supreme Court may issue a declaratory judgment — a binding ruling on the parties' rights and legal relations in a real ("justiciable") controversy — whether or not any other relief could be claimed. ★ If the court declines, it must state why. An injured party in a personal-injury/wrongful-death claim may bring a declaratory action directly against the other party's insurer (Insurance Law § 3420(a)(6)).
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 2 — The JG-22 CPLR and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.