OneBeacon America Insurance v. Colgate-Palmolive Co.

Interim orders, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol R. Edmead, J), entered November 10, 2011, which, inter alia, granted defendant Colgate-Palmolive Company’s motion to stay this action, and stayed plaintiffs motion to compel discovery, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Supreme Court properly stayed this action pending the resolution of an appeal in a related action among the parties in Massachusetts (see CPLR 2201; Asher v Abbott Labs., 307 AD2d 211 [2003]). The issues, relief sought, and parties in the two actions are substantially identical (see id.). Plaintiffs argument that the…