
    In the Matter of Health Insurance Association of America et al., Respondents, v James P. Corcoran, as Superintendent of Insurance, Appellant.
    Argued November 14,1990;
    decided December 18, 1990
    
      APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Frederic L. Lieberman, O. Peter Sherwood, Lawrence S. Kahn and Rosalie J. Hronsky of counsel), for appellant.
    
      Edward N. Costikyan, Carroll J. Mealey and Melissa T. Rosse for respondents.
    
      Evan Wolfson, Kim J. Landsman, Debra Freeman and Harlan M. Mandel for Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. and others, amici curiae.
    
    
      Gregory Serio for Senator Guy J. Vellella, Chairmán of the New York State Senate Committee on Insurance, amicus curiae.
    
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Order affirmed, with costs, for the reasons stated in the opinion by Justice Howard A. Levine at the Appellate Division (154 AD2d 61).

Concur: Chief Judge Wachtler and Judges Simons, Kaye, Alexander, Titone, Hancock, Jr., and Bellacosa.  