
    Monserrate Soto et al., Appellants-Respondents, v Trinity Morris Corp., Sued Herein as Trinity Morse Corp., Formerly Known as Andros Broadway, Inc., Respondent-Appellant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. Marcato Elevator Company, Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Respondent-Appellant.
    [810 NYS2d 331]
   Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Stanley Green, J.), entered January 5, 2005, which denied defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint as abandoned, and granted that portion of plaintiffs’ cross motion to restore the matter to the calendar while denying that portion seeking leave to amend the bill of particulars, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The cross motion to amend the bill of particulars lacked both a showing of merit (Posner v Central Synagogue, 202 AD2d 284 [1994], lv dismissed 83 NY2d 953 [1994]) and an adequate excuse for the delay in raising new categories of injuries (Spielberger v Giambalvo, 207 AD2d 877 [1994]). The motion to dismiss the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3404 was properly denied in view of plaintiffs’ meritorious cause of action, their reasonable excuse for the delay in moving to restore the case to the calendar, the absence of a showing of intent to abandon the action, and a lack of prejudice to defendant (Werner v Tiffany & Co., 291 AD2d 305 [2002]). Concur—Andrias, J.P., Saxe, Friedman, Marlow and Sullivan, JJ.  