Metropolitan Life Insurance v. J.T. Falk & Co.

—Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Leland DeGrasse, J.), entered June 15, 1998, which, upon the denial of defendants-appellants’ renewed motions to vacate a prior order of the same court and Justice, entered on their default, striking their answers, declared, inter alia, that defendants-appellants were obligated to defend and indemnify plaintiffs Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Lehrer McGovern Construction Corporation in the underlying personal injury action, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The motion court properly denied defendants-appellants’ motions…