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AMENDMENT OF NOTICE OF CLAIM TO ALLEGE A DIFFERENT THEORY (CREATION OF THE DEFECT) IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE PROPERLY DENIED.

The First Department determined plaintiff’s motion to amend the notice of claim in this slip and fall case was properly denied. The original notice of claim and the complaint alleged the protruding manhole cover over which plaintiff tripped was the result of improper maintenance. The proposed amendment sought to allege the defendant city created the dangerous condition:

The allegations of negligent maintenance in the notice of claim did not provide notice of plaintiff’s new theory of affirmative negligence … . Thus, General Municipal Law § 50-e(6), which “authorizes the correction of good faith, nonprejudicial, technical defects or omissions, not substantive changes in the theory of liability” … , does not apply. Further, General Municipal Law § 50-e(5) does not authorize amendment of the notice of claim to assert a new theory of liability where, as here, the limitations period has expired … .

Even assuming that the “special use” theory is not a new theory of liability, leave to amend to add it would be futile, since the City’s ownership of the manhole cover does not constitute a “special use” of the sidewalk … . Aleksandrova v City of New York, 2017 NY Slip Op 04379, 1st Dept 6-1-17

 

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