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PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO AMEND HER COMPLAINT BY ADDING A BATTERY CAUSE OF ACTION AGAINST A TEACHER AND A RESPONDEAT SUPERIOR CAUSE OF ACTION AGAINST THE SCHOOL SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED, CRITERIA EXPLAINED, RELATION-BACK DOCTRINE APPLIED TO THE NEW CAUSES OF ACTION (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiff’s motion to amend her complaint to add a battery cause of action against a teacher and a respondeat superior cause of action against the school should have been granted. Plaintiff alleged the defendant teacher struck her on the back of her head. The complaint alleged a negligence cause of action. Prior to trial plaintiff moved to amend the complaint to add the battery and respondeat superior causes of action. The motion was denied. The case went to trial and the jury rendered a defense verdict. Plaintiff will get a new trial on the two causes of action in the amended complaint:

It is well settled that, “[i]n the absence of prejudice or surprise, leave to amend a pleading should be freely granted” … . Plaintiff established that the relation-back doctrine applied for statute of limitations purposes with respect to the battery cause of action, which was based on the same facts and occurrence as the negligence cause of action and thus related back to the original complaint (see CPLR 203 [f]…). In opposition to the cross motion, defendants failed to establish that they would be prejudiced by plaintiff’s delay in seeking leave to amend the complaint … , inasmuch as the new causes of action were based upon the same facts as the negligence cause of action in the original complaint … .

Defendants argued in opposition to the cross motion that plaintiff failed to proffer any excuse for her delay in seeking leave to amend the complaint, but ” [m]ere lateness is not a barrier to the amendment. It must be lateness coupled with significant prejudice to the other side’ ” … . Therefore, although plaintiff provided no excuse for her delay in seeking leave to amend, that is of no moment because, as noted above, defendants have not shown that they were prejudiced by the delay … . Wojtalewski v Central Sq. Cent. Sch. Dist., 2018 NY Slip Op 03275, Fourth Dept 5-4-18

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