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Application to File Late Notice of Claim Against School District Properly Granted in Absence of Reasonable Excuse—School District Had Timely Actual Notice and Could Not Demonstrate Prejudice

The Second Department determined Supreme Court properly granted the application to file a late notice of claim against a school district, in the absence of a reasonable excuse for the lateness:

In determining whether to grant an application for leave to serve a late notice of claim or to deem a late notice of claim to have been timely served, the court must consider whether (1) the public corporation or its attorney or its insurance carrier acquired actual knowledge of the essential facts constituting the claim within 90 days after the claim arose or a reasonable time thereafter, (2) the petitioner demonstrated a reasonable excuse for the failure to serve a timely notice of claim and for the delay in filing the petition, and (3) the delay would substantially prejudice the public corporation in its defense on the merits … .

Here, the City School District of the City of Long Beach (hereinafter the District) acquired actual knowledge of the essential facts constituting the claim within 90 days after the claim arose. … Since the District acquired timely knowledge of the essential facts constituting the petitioner’s claim, the petitioner met his initial burden of showing a lack of prejudice … . The District’s conclusory assertions of prejudice, based solely on the petitioner’s six-week delay in serving the notice of claim, were insufficient to rebut the petitioner’s showing … .

While the petitioner did not demonstrate a reasonable excuse for the failure to serve a timely notice of claim and for the further delay in commencing this proceeding … , the absence of a reasonable excuse is not fatal to a petition where, as here, there was actual notice and an absence of prejudice … . Matter of Fennell v City School Dist of city of Long Beach, 2014 NY Slip Op 04192, 2nd Dept 6-11-14

 

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