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SOMMER v. JOSEPH PIERRE

51 A.D.3d 464 (2008)

856 N.Y.S.2d 619

EVELYN SOMMER et al., Respondents, v. JEAN JOSEPH PIERRE et al., Appellants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided May 6, 2008.

Bifurcation is appropriate in complicated cases of liability and damages where such clarification or simplification will assist in reaching a fair and more expeditious resolution of the issues (22 NYCRR 202.42 [a]; Mazur v Mazur, 288 A.D.2d 945 [2001]). A ruling on such a request is a matter of discretion as to which the trial court should be afforded great deference (Johnson v Hudson Riv. Constr. Co., Inc.,

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