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Failure to Allege Negligent Provision of Medical Care in Notice of Claim Required Dismissal of Negligence Cause of Action; Failure to Allege Facts Demonstrating a Custom or Practice of Providing Inadequate Medical Care Required Dismissal of 1983 Causes of Action 

After a trial awarded the plaintiff over $17,000,000, the Second Department reversed determining (1) the negligent provision of medical care cause of action should have been dismissed because it was not included in the notice of claim, and (2) the 1983 causes of action should have been dismissed because they were not adequately pled in the complaint:

Here, the notice of claim failed to set forth any allegations of negligence on the part of the defendants regarding the deprivation of medical treatment to the plaintiff when he was in police custody. Therefore, the Supreme Court should have directed dismissal of so much of the complaint as alleged negligence, due to the plaintiff’s failure to file a proper notice of claim (see General Municipal Law § 50-e[2] … .  * * *

To hold a municipality liable under § 1983 for the conduct of employees below the policymaking level, a plaintiff must show that the violation of his or her constitutional rights resulted from a municipal custom or policy …. Similarly, where claims are asserted against individual municipal employees in their official capacities, there must be proof of a municipal custom or policy in order to permit recovery, since such claims are tantamount to claims against the municipality itself …. Here, the complaint failed to allege any facts from which it could be reasonably inferred that the defendants had a policy or custom of depriving medical treatment to persons in police custody ….  Vargas v City of New York, 2013 NY Slip Op 02391, 2011-02266, 2011-08980, 2011-09609, Index No 33215/07, 2nd Dept, 4-10-13

 

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