The pleadings dismissed by the court either failed to particularize the transactions and occurrences and the material elements of the causes of action (CPLR 3013), failed to state a valid cause of action (CPLR 3211 [a] [7]), or were covered by the general denials in defendants' answer (Faroll v National Sur. Corp., 13 A.D.2d 952). Dismissal of the third-party complaint was proper inasmuch as defendants attempted to serve such on a party to the main action (Russell v City of Troy, 76 A.D.2d 973), and on a party whose liability could not arise from the liability asserted against the third-party plaintiffs in the main action (BBIG Realty Corp. v Ginsberg, 111 A.D.2d 91, 93). Sanctions were properly imposed on defendants' counsel's frivolous conduct in bringing nineteen affirmative defenses, eight counterclaims and a third-party complaint that clearly lacked merit. Finally, defendants were properly denied leave to amend their answer, counterclaims and third-party complaint in that the proposed submissions were nothing more than a repackaging of the prior deficient pleadings (see, Norman v Ferrara, 107 A.D.2d 739, 740).
Concur — Sullivan, J.P., Milonas, Ellerin and Kassal, JJ.