Opinion
Submitted February 16, 2000.
April 3, 2000.
In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for medical malpractice, the defendants Huntington Hospital; Virginia Cuggino, s/h/a V. Cruzzo; Cheryl DeMarco, s/h/a A. DeMauro; Bhupinder Sharma, s/h/a B.K. Palmer; Margaret Evans, s/h/a M. Evans; and Eileen O'Malley, s/h/a "J. DOE", physical therapist, appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Doyle, J.), entered April 19, 1999, which granted the motion of the defendants Arnold Schwartz and Long Island Spine Specialists, P.C., and the cross motion of the plaintiff to compel the defendant Huntington Hospital to provide certain additional discovery to the extent of directing the defendant Huntington Hospital to provide the names of any individuals who will testify as to any communication by Huntington Hospital to the defendants Arnold M. Schwartz and Long Island Spine Specialists, P.C., or their answering services during the period of time from January 18, 1993, through January 22, 1993.
Furey Furey, P.C., Hempstead, N.Y. (Susan Weihs Darlington of counsel), for appellants.
Shaub, Ahmuty, Citrin Sprat, LLP, Lake Success, N.Y. (Stefan B. Kalina of counsel), for defendants-respondents.
GUY JAMES MANGANO, P.J., FRED T. SANTUCCI, GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN, ANITA R. FLORIO, ROBERT W. SCHMIDT, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs to the defendants-respondents.
The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in directing the disclosure of the names of the witnesses in question (see, Bib Constr. Co. v. City of Poughkeepsie, 260 A.D.2d 590 ; Hines v. RAP Realty Corp., 254 A.D.2d 330 ; Zellman v. Metropolitan Transp. Auth., 40 A.D.2d 248 ).