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Critieria for Amendement of a Notice of Claim Explained

The First Department determined Supreme Court should have granted plaintiff’s motion to amend the notice of claim to include mention of a defective handrail, despite plaintiff’s failure to invoke the proper statutory authority (General Municipla Law 50-e(5)). The court explained the criteria for an amendment:

Under GML § 50-e(5), a notice of claim may be amended within one year and ninety days of an accident to include new theories of liability … . Plaintiff’s cross motion was made eleven months after the accident, well within the one-year-and-ninety- day limitation period.

In determining whether an application for leave to serve a late notice of claim should be granted, a court shall consider “whether the public corporation . . . acquired actual knowledge of the essential facts constituting the claim within the time specified in subdivision one . . . or within a reasonable time thereafter” (GML § 50-e[5]). The court shall also consider “all other relevant facts and circumstances,” including whether the delay “substantially prejudiced the public corporation in maintaining its defense on the merits” (id.).

“In determining whether the city was prejudiced by any mistake, omission, irregularity or defect in the notice [of claim], the court may look to evidence adduced at a section 50-h hearing, and to such other evidence as is properly before the court'” … . * * *

We have previously held that prejudice will not be presumed … . Moreover, “[i]t may not be shown without evidence of an attempt to investigate the accident” … . Given defendant’s actual knowledge of the facts constituting the claim within a reasonable time after the accident, and the lack of evidence of an attempt to conduct an investigation either before or after it obtained knowledge of the issue concerning the handrail in this accident …, “conclusory assertions of prejudice, based solely on the delay in serving the notice of claim, are insufficient” … . Thomas v New York City Hous. Auth., 2015 NY Slip Op 07328, 1st Dept 10-8-15

 

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