| Bhugra v Massachusetts Cas. Ins. Co. |
| 2012 NY Slip Op 02796 [94 AD3d 563] |
| April 17, 2012 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| Maninder Bhugra, Appellant, v Massachusetts Casualty Insurance Company et al., Respondents. |
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Rivkin Radler LLP, Uniondale, (Cheryl F. Korman of counsel), for respondents.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Debra A. James, J.), entered February 1, 2011, which, insofar as appealed from as limited by the briefs, granted the cross motion of defendants Massachusetts Casualty Insurance Company, Centre Life Insurance Company, Centre Solutions, and Zurich American Insurance Company (the MCIC defendants) to compel plaintiff to accept service of its answer, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff had no basis to reject the MCIC defendants' answer, which was timely served in accordance with the written stipulation that was signed by plaintiff's prior counsel and counsel for the MCIC defendants (see CPLR 2104; see also La Marque v North Shore Univ. Hosp., 120 AD2d 572 [1986]).
We have considered plaintiff's remaining arguments and find them unavailing. Concur—Andrias, J.P., Friedman, Moskowitz, Freedman and Manzanet-Daniels, JJ.