Alburquerque v. Beautiful Village Associates Redevelopment Co.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Salvador Collazo, J.), entered on or about July 21, 1994, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by defendants-appellants’ brief, denied their motion for consolidation, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The IAS Court properly exercised its discretion in denying consolidation of three actions seeking to recover for personal injuries arising out of three separate and distinct incidents. As the IAS Court aptly stated after correctly noting that the only factor of any significance common to the actions is the plaintiff’s identity, a single trial…