Florio v. Newmark & Lewis

—In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the defendant appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Doyle, J.), dated December 16, 1996, as, upon denying the plaintiffs cross motion to strike the answer, precluded the defendant from introducing any evidence at trial on the issue of liability, and granted the plaintiffs motion for an order of protection regarding certain discovery demands.

Ordered that the order is modified, on the law and as a matter of discretion, by deleting the provision thereof which precluded the defendant from introducing…