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Amendment of Notice of Claim Including Substantive Changes to the Facts and New Theories of Liability Should Not Have Been Allowed—Original Notice of Claim Inadequate

The Second Department reversed Supreme Court finding that plaintiff’s motion to amend the notice of claim should have been denied and the complaint dismissed:

Amendments to notices of claim are appropriate only to correct good faith and nonprejudicial “technical mistakes, defects, or omissions, not substantive changes in the theory of liability” … . Here, the Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in granting the plaintiff’s cross motion for leave to serve and file an amended notice of claim. The proposed amendments to the notice of claim included substantive changes to the facts, adding that the plaintiff was injured after he climbed a ladder to go over a fence, changing the situs of the accident, and identifying the plaintiff as a worker at the site. The proposed amendments to the notice of claim also added a theory of liability under the Labor Law. Such changes are not technical in nature and are not permitted as late-filed amendments to a notice of claim under General Municipal Law § 50-e(6) … . Granting leave to serve and file the proposed amended notice of claim would prejudice the Housing Authority by depriving it of the opportunity to promptly and meaningfully investigate the claim … .

Moreover, the Supreme Court should have granted the Housing Authority’s motion to dismiss the complaint insofar as asserted against it on the ground that the notice of claim was inadequate. A notice of claim must provide timely notice of the essential facts and legal theories supporting the claims alleged in the complaint … . The test of the sufficiency of a notice of claim is whether it includes enough information to enable the defendant to promptly investigate the allegations at issue … . The plaintiff’s original notice of claim did not sufficiently apprise the Housing Authority of the relevant facts or legal theories supporting the plaintiff’s claims to enable the Housing Authority to promptly and adequately investigate the allegations at issue in the complaint, resulting in prejudice to the Housing Department … . Ahmed v New York City Hous Auth, 2014 NY Slip Op 04883, 2nd Dept 7-2-14

 

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