Opinion
April 1, 1991
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rosenzweig, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with one bill of costs to the respondents appearing separately and filing separate briefs.
On this record, it cannot be said that the Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in imposing the drastic sanction of striking the answers of the individual defendants upon their repeated, willful failure to comply with numerous orders directing them to appear for depositions (see, CPLR 3126; Rubin v. Pan Am. World Airways, 128 A.D.2d 765). Brown, J.P., Kooper, Harwood and Miller, JJ., concur.