Stay not granted in declaratory judgment action

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Ingram v Miller, 2014 NY Slip Op 01296 (2d Dept. 2014)

“Except where otherwise prescribed by law, the court in which an action is pending may grant a stay of proceedings in a proper case, upon such terms as may be just” (CPLR 2201; see Morreale v Morreale, 84 AD3d 1187, 1188). Here, the Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying the appellant’s motion to stay all proceedings in the subject actions pending resolution of an action commenced by a codefendant’s insurer seeking, among other things, a declaratory judgment regarding insurance coverage for the codefendant. The parties in the declaratory judgment action were not sufficiently identical to, or overlapping with, the parties in these actions to warrant a stay”

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