Opinion
Submitted October 20, 1999
November 30, 1999
In two related actions to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., Mercedes-Benz Credit Corporation, a defendant in Action No. 2, appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Hall, J.), dated February 10, 1999, as denied that branch of its motion which was to compel Joseph E. McVeigh, a plaintiff in Action No. 2, to provide authorizations for his complete academic, employment, and medical records.
Lester Schwab Katz Dwyer, New York, N.Y. (Steven B. Prystowsky of counsel), for appellant.
Flynn, Gibbons Dowd, New York, N.Y. (Thomas J. Stock of counsel), for respondent and for Denise Finn McVeigh, plaintiff in Action No. 2.
CORNELIUS J. O'BRIEN, J.P., THOMAS R. SULLIVAN, GLORIA GOLDSTEIN, SANDRA J. FEUERSTEIN, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying that branch of the motion of Mercedes-Benz Credit Corporation (hereinafter MBCC), a defendant in Action No. 2, which was to compel Joseph E. McVeigh, a plaintiff in Action No. 2, to provide authorizations for his complete academic, employment, and medical records. The notice to produce of MBCC was overbroad and failed to specify the documents sought with "reasonable particularity" (CPLR 3120[a][2]; Harrison v. Bayley Seton Hosp., Inc., 247 A.D.2d 513; Blum, Inc. v. Allied Hardware, 237 A.D.2d 492; Fascaldi v. Fascaldi, 209 A.D.2d 578, 579; American Reliance Ins. Co. v. National Gen. Ins. Co., 174 A.D.2d 591).
O'BRIEN, J.P., SULLIVAN, GOLDSTEIN, and FEUERSTEIN, JJ., concur.