Opinion
May 12, 1997
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Silverman, J.).
Ordered that the order is reversed, with costs, the motion is denied, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Westchester County, for the purpose of establishing an expedited discovery schedule.
The court improvidently exercised its discretion in granting the plaintiff's motion for a severance. The questions of law and fact involved in the main action and the third-party action are inextricably interwoven such that a single trial is appropriate in furtherance of the interests of judicial economy and consistency of the verdicts (see, Shanley v. Callanan Indus., 54 N.Y.2d 52, 57; Guilford v. Netter, 179 A.D.2d 801, 802; Klein v. City of Long Beach, 154 A.D.2d 346, 347).
Mangano, P.J., Ritter, Sullivan, Altman and McGinity, JJ., concur.