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Kim v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Dec 8, 1998
256 A.D.2d 83 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)

Opinion

December 8, 1998

Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Salvador Collazo, J.).


Petitioner's motion to renew, which proffered the "Aided Report" she filed in connection with the accident, was properly denied in the absence of a reasonable excuse for not having submitted the report on the first motion ( see, Leonard Fuchs, Inc. v. Laser Processing Corp., 222 A.D.2d 280). In any event, we would affirm the denial of leave to serve a late notice of claim even if we were to consider the report. The report, which was prepared 27 days after the accident, and states that petitioner, a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology, was instructed by a teacher to move a large piece of plywood petitioner was working with from against the wall and that the plywood fell on her foot, cannot be read as giving notice of a claim that respondents were negligent in not providing petitioner with the mechanical means to move the plywood and otherwise in their supervision of petitioner's activities. Nor does it indicate, as petitioner argues, that respondents had investigated the accident ( see, Mateo v. City of New York, 245 A.D.2d 25; Rodriguez v. New York City Bd. of Educ., 190 A.D.2d 579, lv dismissed and denied 81 N.Y.2d 1041; see also, Chattergoon v. New York City Hous. Auth., 161 A.D.2d 141, 142, affd 78 N.Y.2d 958). Petitioner's almost year-long delay in seeking leave to serve a late notice of claim prejudiced respondents' ability to investigate the claim, including any communications between petitioner and the teacher concerning the movement of the plywood, and it does not avail petitioner that the reason for this delay was her attorney's unexplained failure to realize that the Fashion Institute of Technology is part of the City University of New York ( see, Seif v. City of New York, 218 A.D.2d 595).

Concur — Milonas, J. P., Nardelli, Williams, Tom and Andrias, JJ.


Summaries of

Kim v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Dec 8, 1998
256 A.D.2d 83 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)
Case details for

Kim v. City of New York

Case Details

Full title:SHARON KIM, Appellant, v. CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Respondents

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Dec 8, 1998

Citations

256 A.D.2d 83 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)
681 N.Y.S.2d 247

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