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HARVEY SCHLACKMAN et al., Respondents, v. ROBIN S. WEINGAST ASSOCIATES, INC., et al., Defendants, and MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

A pleading attacked for insufficiency must be accorded a liberal construction, and "if it states, in some recognizable form, any cause of action known to our law," it cannot be dismissed ( Clevenger v. Baker Voorhis Co., 8 NY2d 187, 188; see Cooney v. Cooney, 13 AD3d 407; Home Reporter v. Brooklyn Spectator, 34 AD2d 956). The allegations in the complaint, and in any supporting affidavit, must be taken as true ( see Gingold v. Beekman, 183 AD2d 870), and the plaintiff must be accorded "the benefit of every possible favorable inference" ( Leon v. Martinez, 84 NY2d 83, 87; see Goshen v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of N.Y., 98 NY2d 314, 326). Applying these principles, the Supreme Court properly denied that branch of the motion of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (hereinafter Mass Mutual) which was to dismiss the amended complaint insofar as asserted against it, based on a failure to state a cause of action.

In addition, the Supreme Court properly denied that branch of the motion of Mass Mutual which was pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (3) to dismiss the amended complaint on the ground that the plaintiffs had no legal capacity to sue, as the plaintiffs are the real parties in interest ( see generally Airlines Reporting Corp. v. Pro Travel, 239 AD2d 233, 234; Airlines Reporting Corp. v. S N Travel, 238 AD2d 292.

Mass Mutual's remaining contentions are without merit.

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SCHLACKMAN v. ROBIN S. WEINGAST ASSOCIATES
(May 23, 2005)