Harvard Mutual Agency, Inc. v. Pyrczak

Order unanimously modified *1151on the law and as modified affirmed without costs, in accordance with the following memorandum: Defendants’ application for a protective order should have been granted. It is well settled that, unless necessary to establish the right to an accounting, a plaintiff is not entitled to discovery of a defendant’s financial records in an accounting action until the right to an accounting has been demonstrated (A. Colish, Inc. v Abramson, 150 AD2d 210; Shandell v Katz, 95 AD2d 742; Papazoglou v Papazoglou, 69 AD2d 855). The financial documents sought to be produced are…