Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
In order to have prevailed on its defense of non-cooperation, the defendant-insurance company was required to show, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the plaintiff-insured had engaged in an unreasonable and willful pattern of refusing to answer material and relevant questions or to supply material and relevant documents (see, Yerushalmi v Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co.,
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