Court Opinion

ID: 5787562
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 18:03:20.683246+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:42:09.181568
License: Public Domain

*630Defendants’ failure to offer a reasonable excuse for their noncompliance with discovery demands, court orders and the court’s rules gives rise to an inference of willful and contumacious conduct (Siegman v Rosen, 270 AD2d 14, 15 [2000]). The striking of their answer and third-party complaint was a proper exercise of judicial discretion in light of such conduct (CPLR 3126; see Kihl v Pfeffer, 94 NY2d 118, 123 [1999]). Concur— Sweeny, J.P., Catterson, Renwick, Freedman and Abdus-Salaam, JJ.