injuries); Barker v. Kallash, 63 N.Y.2d 19, 28-29, 479 N.Y.S.2d 201, 468 N.E.2d 39 (1984) (plaintiff could not seek damages against defendants who gave him gunpowder to make a pipe bomb, which severely injured plaintiff when it exploded as plaintiff was making it, because plaintiffs own wrong-making a pipe bomb-constituted a serious violation of law that transcended contributory negligence and comparative fault); Riggs v. Palmer, 115 N.Y. 506, 511-512, 22 N.E. 188 (1889) (stating principle that “[n]o one shall be permitted to profit by his own fraud, or to take advantage of his own wrong, or to found any claim upon his own iniquity, or to acquire property by his own crime”); see also Alami v. Volkswagen of America, Inc., 97 N.Y.2d 281, 287, 739 N.Y.S.2d 867, 766 N.E.2d 574 (2002) (<HOLDING>) (emphasis added). Plaintiff states that, in
holding that an arbitration award involving the appellants challenge to the failure of the insurance company to ensure that he had read and understood a signed waiver and to attach the waiver to the insurance policy as contrary to public policy is not reviewable by the courts because there is no challenge to a provision or term of the policy the appellant never claimed that the waiver or policy language itself was contrary to the public policy of this commonwealth holding that absent follow form language provision that excess policy would continue as underlying policy did not impose coverage as provided in underlying policy recognizing a public policy against discrimination but not providing for an independent cause of action recognizing public policy against permitting judicial relief to those injured in the course of committing a serious criminal act but refusing to extend policy beyond claims where the parties to the suit were involved in the underlying criminal conduct   holding that in reviewing the petition the court is to weigh the policy of public access to records against the longstanding public policy of providing a second chance to criminal defendants who have not been adjudicated guilty