Opinion
No. 2007-10442.
March 10, 2009.
In a consolidated action to recover damages for personal injuries, etcetera, the plaintiff's appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Ambrosio, J.), dated October 1, 2007, which granted the motion of the defendant Darr Contracting Corp. to change the venue of the action from Kings County to Suffolk County, and granted the separate motions of the defendants J. Petrocelli Contracting, Inc., and the defendants HK New Plan Marwood Sunshine Cheyenne, LLC, and New Plan Excel Realty Trust, Inc., and that branch of the separate motion of the defendants Stop Shop Supermarket Company, Stop Shop Food Stores, Inc., and Stop Shop, Inc., which were for the same relief, and, in effect, denied their cross motion to retain venue in Kings County or, in the alternative, to change venue to New York County.
Mark J. Rayo, P.C., Brooklyn, N.Y. (Louis A. Badolato of counsel), for appellants.
Ahmuty, Demers McManus, Albertson, N.Y. (Brendan T. Fitzpatrick of counsel), for respondent J. Petrocelli Contracting, Inc., O'Connor, O'Connor, Hintz Deveney, LLP, Melville, N.Y., (Eileen M. Baumgartner of counsel), for respondent Darr Contracting Corp.
Cuttita Cuttita, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Robert D. Frankfort of counsel), for respondents HK New Plan Marwood Sunshine Cheyenne, LLC, and New Plan Excel Realty Trust, Inc.
Torino Bernstein, P.C., Mineola, N.Y. (Bruce Torino of counsel), for respondents Stop Shop Supermarket Company, Stop Shop Food Stores, Inc., and Stop Shop, Inc.
Before: Prudenti, P.J., Dillon, Covello and Leventhal, JJ.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with one bill of costs payable to the respondents appearing separately and filing separate briefs.
Under the circumstances, the Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in changing the venue of this action from Kings County to Suffolk County ( see Canaan v Costco Wholesale Membership, Inc., 49 AD3d 583, 584-585; Clase v Sidoti, 20 AD3d 330, 331; Crew v St. Joseph's Med. Ctr., 19 AD3d 205, 206; Halina Yin Fong Chow v Long Is. R.R., 202 AD2d 154, 155; Caplin v Ranhofer, 167 AD2d 155, 157).
The plaintiffs' remaining contentions are without merit.