Pepsico, Inc. v. Winterthur International America Insurance Company
Decision Date | 27 December 2005 |
Docket Number | 2004-07995.,2004-07985.,2004-07994. |
Citation | 2005 NY Slip Op 10109,24 A.D.3d 742,806 N.Y.S.2d 711 |
Parties | PEPSICO, INC., et al., Respondents, v. WINTERTHUR INTERNATIONAL AMERICA INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, et al., Defendant. |
Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Ordered that one bill of costs is awarded to the respondents.
"To invoke the drastic remedy of preclusion, the Supreme Court must determine the offending party's lack of cooperation with disclosure was willful, deliberate, and contumacious" (Assael v. Metropolitan Tr. Auth., 4 AD3d 443 [2004]; see Pryzant v. City of New York, 300 AD2d 383 [2002] [internal quotation marks omitted]; Patterson v. New York City Health & Hosps. Corp. [Queens Hosp. Ctr.], 284 AD2d 516, 517 [2001]). CPLR 3126 provides that a court may issue a preclusion order if "a party . . . refuses to obey an order for disclosure or willfully fails to disclose information which the court finds ought to have been disclosed." The appellant failed to demonstrate that it was entitled to so drastic a remedy as preclusion. In this litigation, where extensive discovery has taken place between the parties, the respondents have produced over 40,000 documents in response to the defendant's requests set forth in no less than six sets of interrogatories and notices to produce. Approximately 40 depositions have been taken. With regard to the outstanding discovery materials sought, the appellant failed to demonstrate that the information is material and necessary to its defense. Accordingly, the Supreme...
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