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COUNTERCLAIMS AGAINST INDIVIDUAL TRUSTEES RELATED BACK TO THE COUNTERCLAIMS AGAINST THE TRUST AND THEREFORE WERE NOT TIME-BARRED, SUPREME COURT REVERSED (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing (modifying) Supreme Court, determined the counterclaims against the trustees of the plaintiff workers’ compensation self-insurance trust should not have been dismissed as time-barred because they related back to the counterclaims against the trust:

Supreme Court determined that, because defendant was aware of the identity of the trustees when it interposed its original answer and counterclaims in September 2010, its failure to assert claims against the individual trustees between September 2010 and December 2016 represented “either a strategic litigation decision on its part or a mistake of law,” neither of which it found would entitle defendant to application of the doctrine. We disagree.

There is nothing in the record before us demonstrating that defendant intentionally elected not to assert its counterclaims against the individual trustees and/or that it did so to obtain “a tactical advantage in the litigation” … . A review of defendant’s pleadings demonstrates that it intended to sue the individual trustees … . Although the specific names of the individual trustees could have been ascertained from certain documentation that the trust provided to defendant on an annual basis, “we need no longer consider whether [such a] mistake was excusable” … . Rather, as the Court of Appeals has recognized, the primary question — and “the linchpin of the relation back doctrine” — is whether the newly added party had actual notice of the claim … . As trustees of the trust, we find it implausible that the individual trustees were not aware of the trust’s commencement of this action and the counterclaims that defendant asserted against the trust — such knowledge being imputed to them as trustees … . NYAHSA Servs., Inc., Self-Ins. Trust v People Care Inc., 2018 NY Slip Op 08735 [167 AD3d 1305], Third Dept 12-20-18

 

December 20, 2018
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