ROBERT ANGOTTA, plf, v. SCOTT D. ZELEZNY, def; SULLIVAN PAPAIN BLOCK MCGRATH & CANNAVO, P.C., NONPARTY-ap; BRODY, OCONNOR & OCONNOR, NONPARTY-res

ROBERT ANGOTTA, plf, v. SCOTT D. ZELEZNY, def; SULLIVAN PAPAIN BLOCK MCGRATH & CANNAVO, P.C., NONPARTY-ap; BRODY, OCONNOR & OCONNOR, NONPARTY-res — (INDEX NO. 20702/10)In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, nonparty Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo, P.C., the plaintiff's current counsel, appeals (1) from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Rebolini, J.), entered April 6, 2012, which granted the motion of nonparty Brody, O'Connor & O'Connor, the plaintiff's former counsel, for an award of an attorney's fee, and directed it to pay nonparty Brody, O'Connor & O'Connor the sum of $4,333.33, representing 65 percent of the total amount of the attorney's fee held in escrow, and (2), as limited by its brief, from so much of an amended order of the same court, dated August 23, 2012, as granted that branch of the motion of nonparty Brody, O'Connor & O'Connor which was to adjust the previous award of an attorney's fee to reflect 65 percent of the correct total amount in escrow, and directed it to pay nonparty Brody, O'Connor & O'Connor the sum of $5,134.84, representing 65 percent of the corrected total amount of the attorney's fee held in escrow.

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ROBERT ANGOTTA, plf, v. SCOTT D. ZELEZNY, def; SULLIVAN PAPAIN BLOCK MCGRATH & CANNAVO, P.C., NONPARTY-ap; BRODY, OCONNOR & OCONNOR, NONPARTY-res — (INDEX NO. 20702/10)In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, nonparty Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo, P.C., the plaintiff’s current counsel, appeals (1) from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Rebolini, J.), entered April 6, 2012, which granted the motion of nonparty Brody, O’Connor & O’Connor, the plaintiff’s former counsel, for an award of an attorney’s fee, and directed it to pay nonparty Brody, O’Connor & O’Connor the sum of $4,333.33, representing 65 percent of the total amount of the attorney’s fee held in escrow, and (2), as limited by its brief, from so much of an amended order of the same court, dated August 23, 2012, as granted that branch of the motion of nonparty Brody, O’Connor & O’Connor which was to adjust the previous award of an attorney’s fee to reflect 65 percent of the correct total amount in escrow, and directed it to pay nonparty Brody, O’Connor & O’Connor the sum of $5,134.84, representing 65 percent of the corrected total amount of the attorney’s fee held in escrow.

ORDERED that the appeal from the order entered April 6, 2012, is dismissed, as that order was superseded by the amended order dated August 23, 2012; and it is further,

ROBERT ANGOTTA, plf, v. SCOTT D. ZELEZNY, def; SULLIVAN PAPAIN BLOCK MCGRATH & CANNAVO, P.C., NONPARTY-ap; BRODY, OCONNOR & OCONNOR, NONPARTY-res

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