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Late Amendment of Complaint (After Note of Issue Filed) Should Have Been Granted

The First Department reversed the IAS court’s denial of plaintiff’s motion to serve a third amended complaint.  The court noted that plaintiff’s failure to vacate his note of issue did not require the denial of the motion. In explaining that mere lateness is not a barrier to amendment, the court wrote:

…”[M]ere lateness is not a barrier to . . . amendment. It must be lateness coupled with significant prejudice to the other side . ….. “The kind of prejudice required to defeat an amendment . . . must . . . be a showing of prejudice traceable not simply to the new matter sought to be added, but also to the fact that it is only now being added. There must be some special right lost in the interim, some change of position or some significant trouble or expense that could have been avoided had the original pleading contained what the amended one wants to add”…. Defendants failed to show such prejudice. Jacobson v Croman, 2013 NY Slip Op 04909, 1st Dept 6-27-13

 

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