Rental car insurance rules
Droga5 Studios v. Edge Auto
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Droga5 Studios and Daniel Jaffe ask the Supreme Court to review New York’s reading of the Graves Amendment, a federal law limiting vehicle owners’ liability, and whether the McCarran-Ferguson Act shields New York’s § 370 minimum-insurance rule from that law.
- What's at stake
- For the parties, it remains unresolved whether federal law overrides New York's § 370 minimum-insurance rule.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Their petition was distributed for a conference; that step does not itself mean the Court agreed to hear it.
The Graves Amendment is a federal law limiting vehicle owners' liability, while New York's § 370 sets minimum-insurance requirements.
Question presented
1. Whether the New York Court of Appeals wrongly applied the Graves Amendment to Vehicle and Traffic Law § 370. 2. Whether the New York Court of Appeals incorrectly found that the McCarran Ferguson Act is not triggered by the Graves Amendment’s purported preemptive effect over the primary minimum insurance mandates of Vehicle and Traffic Law § 370.
What happens next
The petition was distributed for the Court's Nov. 13, 2026 conference. The Court must decide whether to hear it; no oral argument or decision date is set.
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