Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff moved for leave to amend the complaint to add Mobil Oil Corporation (hereinafter Mobil) as a party defendant and to assert causes of action based upon common-law and contractual indemnification against Mobil. While leave to amend a complaint should be freely granted (see CPLR 3025 [b]), leave should be denied where, as here, the proposed amendment is palpably insufficient and patently devoid of merit...
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