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NOTICE OF INTENTION TO FILE A CLAIM CAN BE FILED BY ANY INTERESTED PERSON, THE NOTICE WAS NOT INVALID BECAUSE THE FILER, DECEDENT’S WIFE, WAS NOT REPRESENTING DECEDENT’S ESTATE AT THE TIME 2ND DEPT.

The Second Department, reversing the Court of Claims, determined a notice of intention to file a claim for medical malpractice was valid. A notice of intention to file a claim, unlike a notice of claim, may be filed by any “interested person,” here the wife of decedent (who was not representing the decedent’s estate at the time):

The claimant’s husband (hereinafter the decedent) was treated at Stony Brook University Hospital (hereinafter Stony Brook) from February 13, 2005, through March 3, 2005. The decedent was later treated at Mount Sinai Hospital from March 18, 2006, until his death on October 30, 2006. On April 19, 2006, the claimant, “as Proposed Guardian for” the decedent, filed a notice of intention to file a claim against the defendant State of New York to recover damages for medical malpractice that allegedly occurred while the decedent was treated at Stony Brook (hereinafter the notice of intention). On January 3, 2008, the claimant was granted letters of administration for the decedent’s estate. On January 11, 2008, the claimant filed a claim against the defendant to recover damages for medical malpractice, wrongful death, and loss of services.

The Court of Claims should have denied the defendant’s motion pursuant to Court of Claims Act §§ 10 and 11 to dismiss so much of the claim as sought to recover damages for the decedent’s conscious pain and suffering arising from medical malpractice. Contrary to the defendant’s contention and the court’s conclusion, the notice of intention filed by the claimant on April 19, 2006, was not invalid on the ground that the claimant lacked the authority to file it on behalf of the decedent, as the notice may be given by “any interested person” … . The Court of Appeals’ decision in Lichtenstein v State (93 NY2d 911) does not compel a different result, as that case involved the filing of a claim itself, as opposed to a notice of intention to file a claim. Matter of Dolce v State of New York, 2017 NY Slip Op 05434, 2nd Dept 7-5-17

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