Although trial courts are afforded wide latitude in supervising pretrial discovery, preclusion, like the striking of an answer, is an extreme and drastic measure to be invoked only where the refusal to obey an order for disclosure or failure to disclose is clearly contumacious or deliberate (Berman v Szpilzinger,
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