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LEAVE TO FILE A LATE NOTICE OF CLAIM SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED.

The First Department, over a two-justice dissent, determined Supreme Court should not have granted leave to file a late notice of claim. “Petitioner was injured on July 15, 2015, while working as a bricklayer … at a job site located at an intermediate school in the Bronx. Petitioner alleges that while lifting 60 to 70 pound buckets, he tripped and fell due to an uneven floor on a makeshift scaffold. He filed a workers’ compensation claim on July 29, 2015, but did not file a notice of claim until July 15, 2016, a year later. In the intervening year, he underwent a shoulder and a hip surgery:”

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The motion court improvidently exercised its discretion in granting the motion. Petitioner failed to establish any of the relevant statutory factors that would warrant leave to serve a late notice of claim … . Petitioner’s alleged failure to realize the severity of his injuries within 90 days after his accident did not constitute a reasonable excuse for his delay in serving a notice of claim, especially since petitioner filed a workers’ compensation claim just weeks after the accident… . Nor did petitioner show that respondents acquired actual knowledge of the essential facts constituting the claim within the statutory period, or a reasonable time thereafter (see General Municipal Law § 50-e[5]). There is no evidence that respondents received petitioner’s workers’ compensation claim form, which, in any event, makes no mention of the allegations against respondents … . Absent any knowledge of even a potential Labor Law claim, respondents certainly had no basis to conduct their own investigations … .

* * * … [T]here is no evidence respondents were aware of an accident even occurring. Petitioner … does no more than refer to numerous construction records that purportedly could be examined, yet provides no names of actual witnesses nor any reference to specific information in those records. Matter of Grajko v City of New York, 2017 NY Slip Op 04203, 1st Dept 5-24-17

 

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