Farmers Insurance Exchange Los Angeles California v. Estate of Wesley Knippler

—In a hybrid proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 75, inter alia, to stay arbitration and an action for a *465judgment declaring that the maximum benefits payable to the decedent’s estate under five insurance policies issued by the petitioner is $100,000, the petitioner appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Adams, J.), dated August 2, 2000, as, in effect, denied so much of the petition as sought the declaration and to direct the respondent to comply with its discovery requests prior to commencing any arbitration.

Ordered that the order is…