Opinion
June 10, 1991
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Baisley, J.).
Ordered that the orders are affirmed; and it is further,
Ordered that the respondents in Action Nos. 1 and 2 are awarded costs.
Under the circumstances, the Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in striking the defendants' answers in Action Nos. 1 and 2 based on their willful and contumacious behavior in failing to comply with the respective plaintiffs' discovery requests (Moriates v Powertest Petroleum Co., 114 A.D.2d 888; Wolfson v Nassau County Med. Center, 141 A.D.2d 815). Mangano, P.J., Kooper, Harwood and Balletta, JJ., concur.