| Yan Ping Liang v Wei Xuan Gao |
| 2014 NY Slip Op 04003 [118 AD3d 696] |
| June 4, 2014 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
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| Yan Ping Liang, Appellant, v Wei Xuan Gao etal., Respondents. |
Kevin Kerveng Tung, P.C., Flushing, N.Y. (Kenji Fukuda of counsel), forappellant.
Schiller Law Group, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Howard Berglas of counsel), forrespondent Wei Xuan Gao.
Christopher Chen, Flushing, N.Y., for respondent Nan Li.
In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for battery, false imprisonment, anddefamation, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County(McDonald, J.), entered September 5, 2012, which, after a hearing, denied that branch ofher motion which was to vacate a written stipulation of settlement dated October 26,2011, and to restore the matter to the trial calendar.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with one bill of costs.
"Stipulations of settlement are judicially favored, will not lightly be set aside, and'are to be enforced with rigor and without a searching examination into their substance' aslong as they are 'clear, final and the product of mutual accord' " (Peralta v All Weather Tire Sales& Serv., Inc., 58 AD3d 822, 822 [2009], quoting Bonnette v Long Is. Coll.Hosp., 3 NY3d 281, 286 [2004]; see Forcelli v Gelco Corp., 109 AD3d 244, 247-248[2013]). A stipulation of settlement may not be set aside except on a showing of fraud,collusion, mistake, or accident (see Hallock v State of New York, 64 NY2d 224,230 [1984]; Esposito vPodolsky, 104 AD3d 903, 905-906 [2013]). Here, the plaintiff failed todemonstrate a basis for setting aside the written stipulation of settlement (see Colon v Rite Fold Corp.,106 AD3d 862 [2013]; Lazar v Lazar, 88 AD3d 852 [2011]; Rubin v Rubin, 33 AD3d983, 985-986 [2006]; Strangolagalli v Strangolagalli, 295 AD2d 338 [2002];see also Ross v ClydeBeatty-Cole Bros. Circus, 26 AD3d 321 [2006]). Balkin, J.P., Dickerson,Chambers and Hall, JJ., concur.