Suffolk P.E.T. Management, LLC v. Anand

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Bernard J. Fried, J.), entered July 16, 2012, which granted plaintiffs motion to confirm the report of the Special Referee recommending that defendants’ answer be stricken for noncompliance with discovery orders and directives and that a default judgment be entered against defendants on liability, and referred the matter to a special referee to hear and report on the issue of damages, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The motion was properly granted inasmuch as the record supports the findings that defendants engaged in willful and contumacious conduct…