The default judgment was properly vacated upon a record showing that defendants promptly forwarded the summons and complaint and the motion for a default judgment to their insurance broker, that the subsequent defaults in answering the complaint and opposing the motion for a default judgment were the broker's fault, and that defendants were not the owner and managing agent of the subject building at the time of the accident (CPLR 2005, 5015 [a] [1]). We think it significant...
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