Hospital for Joint Diseases v. Allstate Insurance

—In an action to recover no-fault medical payments under four insurance contracts, the defendant appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (McCaffrey, J.), dated July 20, 2000, as denied its motion to vacate a judgment of the same court, entered January 7, 2000, upon its default in answering the complaint.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

A defendant seeking to vacate a judgment entered upon its default in answering a complaint must demonstrate both a reasonable excuse for the default and the existence…