Opinion
Argued February 22, 2000.
March 30, 2000.
In an action to recover damages for medical malpractice, the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Nastasi, J.), entered May 19, 1999, which denied their motion to vacate an order of the same court, dated April 21, 1999, which sua sponte dismissed the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3126(3) upon the plaintiffs' failure to comply with prior orders of the same court directing disclosure.
Howard M. File, Esq., P.C., Staten Island, N.Y. (Martin Rubenstein of counsel), for appellants.
Rende, Ryan Downes, LLP, White Plains, N.Y. (Wayne M. Rubin of counsel), for respondents Charles A. Salzberg and New York Group for Plastic Surgery and Rehabilitation, LLP.
Schiavetti, Geisler, Corgan, Soscia, Devito, Gabriele Nicholson, LLP, White Plains, N.Y. (Carl D. Weinberg of counsel), for respondent Westchester County Medical Center.
CORNELIUS J. O'BRIEN, J.P., DAVID S. RITTER, THOMAS R. SULLIVAN, NANCY E. SMITH, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.
By order dated April 21, 1999, the Supreme Court sua sponte dismissed the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3126(3) upon the plaintiffs' failure to comply with orders directing disclosure. In view of the plaintiffs' conduct, the Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the plaintiffs' motion to vacate that order (see, Cauley v. Long Is. R.R. Co., 234 A.D.2d 252;Watson v. Esposito, 231 A.D.2d 512 ; Kaplan v. Elkind, 208 A.D.2d 683 ).
O'BRIEN, J.P., RITTER, SULLIVAN, and SMITH, JJ., concur.