Belesi v. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance

—In an action to recover the proceeds of a disability insurance policy, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Schmidt, J.), entered November 2, 1998, as granted the defendant’s motion (a) pursuant to CPLR 5015 to vacate a judgment of the same court entered March 24, 1998, and (b) for leave to renew its prior cross motion to amend its answer to include a counterclaim for rescission, and for summary judgment on the counterclaim, and (c), upon renewal, granted that branch of the cross motion which was for leave to amend the…