Opinion
April 26, 1999
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Gowan, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
Given the length of the defendants' delay in moving to amend their answer, their failure to provide a reasonable explanation for the delay, the prejudice the proposed amendment would cause the plaintiff, and the apparent lack of merit of the proposed amendment, the Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying the defendants' motion ( see, Tricarico v. B B Equip. Co., 249 A.D.2d 296; Matter of Goggins, 231 A.D.2d 634).
Altman, J. P., Goldstein, Florio and McGinity, JJ., concur.