Opinion
2014-06-4
YAN PING LIANG, APPELLANT, v. WEI XUAN GAO, et al., respondents.
Kevin Kerveng Tung, P.C., Flushing, N.Y. (Kenji Fukuda of counsel), for appellant. Schiller Law Group, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Howard Berglas of counsel), for respondent Wei Xuan Gao.
Kevin Kerveng Tung, P.C., Flushing, N.Y. (Kenji Fukuda of counsel), for appellant. Schiller Law Group, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Howard Berglas of counsel), for respondent Wei Xuan Gao.
Christopher Chen, Flushing, N.Y., for respondent Nan Li.
In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for battery, false imprisonment, and defamation, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (McDonald, J.), entered September 5, 2012, which, after a hearing, denied that branch of her motion which was to vacate a written stipulation of settlement dated October 26, 2011, and to restore the matter to the trial calendar.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with one bill of costs.
“Stipulations of settlement are judicially favored, will not lightly be set aside, and ‘are to be enforced with rigor and without a searching examination into their substance’ as long as they are ‘clear, final and the product of mutual accord’ ” ( Peralta v. All Weather Tire Sales & Serv., Inc., 58 A.D.3d 822, 822, 873 N.Y.S.2d 111, quoting Bonnette v. Long Is. Coll. Hosp., 3 N.Y.3d 281, 286, 785 N.Y.S.2d 738, 819 N.E.2d 206;see Forcelli v. Gelco Corp., 109 A.D.3d 244, 247–248, 972 N.Y.S.2d 570). A stipulation of settlement may not be set aside except on a showing of fraud, collusion, mistake, or accident ( see Hallock v. State of New York, 64 N.Y.2d 224, 230, 485 N.Y.S.2d 510, 474 N.E.2d 1178;Esposito v. Podolsky, 104 A.D.3d 903, 905–906, 963 N.Y.S.2d 664). Here, the plaintiff failed to demonstrate a basis for setting aside the written stipulation of settlement ( see Colon v. Rite Fold Corp., 106 A.D.3d 862, 967 N.Y.S.2d 74;Lazar v. Lazar, 88 A.D.3d 852, 931 N.Y.S.2d 517;Rubin v. Rubin, 33 A.D.3d 983, 985–986, 823 N.Y.S.2d 218;Strangolagalli v. Strangolagalli, 295 A.D.2d 338, 742 N.Y.S.2d 914;see also Ross v. Clyde Beatty–Cole Bros. Circus, 26 A.D.3d 321, 812 N.Y.S.2d 548). BALKIN, J.P., DICKERSON, CHAMBERS and HALL, JJ., concur.