Opinion
2014-07-30
Leon JACOBSON, etc., et al., respondents, v. Lauren ADLER, et al., defendants, New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, appellant.
Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Daniel S. Ratner of counsel), for appellant. Meagher & Meagher, P.C., White Plains, N.Y. (Patrick J. McCorley of counsel), for respondents.
Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Daniel S. Ratner of counsel), for appellant. Meagher & Meagher, P.C., White Plains, N.Y. (Patrick J. McCorley of counsel), for respondents.
In an action to recover damages for medical malpractice and lack of informed consent, etc., the defendant New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Murphy, J.), entered October 2, 2012, which denied its motion for leave to renew its prior motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against it, which had been denied in an order of the same court entered December 19, 2011.
ORDERED that the order entered October 2, 2012, is affirmed, with costs.
A motion for leave to renew “shall be based upon new facts not offered on the prior motion that would change the prior determination” (CPLR 2221[e][2] ) and “shall contain reasonable justification for the failure to present such facts on the prior motion” (CPLR 2221[e][3]; see Ali v. Verizon N.Y., Inc., 116 A.D.3d 722, 982 N.Y.S.2d 903;Rakha v. Pinnacle Bus Servs., 98 A.D.3d 657, 657, 949 N.Y.S.2d 769;DeMarquez v. Gallo, 94 A.D.3d 1039, 1040, 943 N.Y.S.2d 169). While a court has discretion to entertain renewal based on facts known to the movant at the time of the original motion, the movant must set forth a reasonable justification for the failure to submit the information in the first instance ( see Deutsche Bank Trust Co. v. Ghaness, 100 A.D.3d 585, 585–586, 953 N.Y.S.2d 301;Yebo v. Cuadra, 98 A.D.3d 504, 506, 949 N.Y.S.2d 451), since a motion for leave to renew is not a second chance freely given to parties who have not exercised due diligence in making their first factual presentation ( see Ali v. Verizon N.Y., Inc., 116 A.D.3d at 722, 982 N.Y.S.2d 903;Matter of Catherine V.D. [Rachel G.], 100 A.D.3d 992, 993, 955 N.Y.S.2d 152;Worrell v. Parkway Estates, LLC, 43 A.D.3d 436, 437, 840 N.Y.S.2d 817).
Here, the Supreme Court correctly determined that, in support of its motion for leave to renew its prior motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against it, which had been denied in an order entered December 19, 2011, the defendant New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center (hereinafter the appellant) failed to furnish new facts not offered on the prior motion which would have changed the prior determination, and failed to offer a reasonable justification for the failure to present such facts on the prior motion ( see Ferdico v. Zweig, 82 A.D.3d 1151, 1153, 919 N.Y.S.2d 521). Accordingly, the Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the appellant's motion for leave to renew.
In light of our determination, we need not reach the appellant's remaining contention. DICKERSON, J.P., LEVENTHAL, COHEN and HINDS–RADIX, JJ., concur.