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Expert Testimony Should Not Have Been Precluded Based Upon the Timing of the Disclosure—Short Adjournment Would Have Eliminated Prejudice—New Trial Ordered

The Second Department determined Supreme Court should not have precluded expert testimony based upon the timing of the expert disclosure:

“CPLR 3101(d)(1)(i) does not require a party to respond to a demand for expert witness information at any specific time nor does it mandate that a party be precluded from proffering expert testimony merely because of noncompliance with the statute, unless there is evidence of intentional or willful failure to disclose and a showing of prejudice by the opposing party'”… .

The defendants did not establish that the plaintiffs willfully or intentionally violated a court directive regarding expert disclosure … . Moreover, any prejudice to the defendants from late disclosure would have been limited, inasmuch as the defendants’ own engineer was present when the plaintiffs’ engineer conducted his inspection (\… . A short adjournment of this nonjury trial could have eliminated prejudice entirely … . Under these circumstances, the Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in granting the defendants’ application for preclusion of the plaintiffs’ experts (see id.). Accordingly, a new trial is warranted. Arcamone-Makinano v Britton Prop Inc, 2014 NY Slip Op 03644, 2nd Dept 5-21-14

 

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