Nicolia Ready Mix, Inc. v. Fernandes

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for fraudulent transfer of corporate assets, the defendant appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Tanenbaum, J.), dated March 27, 2006, as granted the plaintiffs cross motion pursuant to CPLR 3126 to strike the answer.

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

A court is authorized to strike the pleadings of a party who “refuses to obey an order for disclosure or willfully fails to disclose information which the court finds ought to have been disclosed” (CPLR…