A medical malpractice action in which the plaintiff failed to narrow down deposition demands despite court orders to do so was wrongly dismissed, a state appeals court has ruled in reinstating the suit, because there was not a “clear showing” that the failure was “willful and contumacious.”

Such a clear showing “did not occur here,” an Appellate Division, Second Department panel wrote simply in the terse opinion, without additional detail.

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