Provident Life & Casualty Insurance v. Brittenham

—In an action, inter alia, for a judgment declaring that the plaintiff is not liable to the defendant under the terms of a disability insurance policy, the plaintiff appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Alpert, J.), dated August 6, 1999, as granted the defendant’s motion for a protective order and for a special trial preference, and directed that certain out-of-state depositions be conducted by videoconferencing at the plaintiff’s expense.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs; and it is further,

Ordered that the parties and/or…