Gorman, Naim and Musa, M.D., P. C., et al., Appellants, v. ABJ Fire Protection, Inc., Respondent and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. A. Zaborny Co., Inc., et al., Third-Party Defendants-Respondents; Diagnostic Therapeutic Associates, Third-Party Defendant-Appellant. (Action No. 1.); Norstar Bank of Upstate New York et al., Plaintiffs, v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation et al., Respondents, and Diagnostic Therapeutic Associates, Appellant. A. Zaborny Co., Inc., et al., Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. Gorman, Naim and Musa, M.D., P. C., et al., Third-Party Defendants-Appellants. (Action No. 2.)

Gorman, Naim and Musa, M.D., P. C., et al., Appellants, v ABJ Fire Protection, Inc., Respondent and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. A. Zaborny Co., Inc., et al., Third-Party Defendants-Respondents; Diagnostic Therapeutic Associates, Third-Party Defendant-Appellant. (Action No. 1.) Norstar Bank of Upstate New York et al., Plaintiffs, v Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation et al., Respondents, and Diagnostic Therapeutic Associates, Appellant. A. Zaborny Co., Inc., et al., Third-Party Plaintiffs, v Gorman, Naim and Musa, M.D., P. C., et al., Third-Party Defendants-Appellants. (Action No. 2.) (Appeal No. 1.) [601 NYS2d 883] [MAJORITY] Order unanimously affirmed with costs. Memorandum: Supreme Court’s order directing a deposition of plaintiffs’-third-party defendants’ expert limited to his factual observations was not an abuse of discretion under the special circumstances existing here (see, CPLR 3101 [d] [1] [iii]; Rosario v General Motors Corp., 148 AD2d 108; Morrison v Ellis, 91 AD2d 1172; see also, Krygier v Airweld, Inc., 176 AD2d 700). (Appeal from Order of Supreme Court, Onondaga County, Reagan, J.— Protective Order.) Present—Pine, J. P., Fallon, Boomer, Davis and Boehm, JJ.