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PURELY CONCLUSORY ALLEGATIONS IN A COMPLAINT WILL NOT SURVIVE A PRE-ANSWER MOTION TO DISMISS (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, in determining a negligent training and supervision cause of action was properly dismissed, noted that purely conclusory allegations in a complaint will not survive a pre-answer motion to dismiss:

We reject plaintiffs’ contention that the court erred in dismissing the third cause of action, alleging negligent training and supervision. We are cognizant of our duty on a motion to dismiss to “accept the facts as alleged in the complaint as true, accord plaintiffs the benefit of every possible favorable inference, and determine only whether the facts as alleged fit within any cognizable legal theory” .. , and that the issue ” [w]hether a plaintiff can ultimately establish its allegations is not part of the calculus in determining a motion to dismiss’ ” … . Nevertheless, although “it is axiomatic that a court must assume the truth of the complaint’s allegations, such an assumption must fail where there are conclusory allegations lacking factual support . . . Indeed, a cause of action cannot be predicated solely on mere conclusory statements . . . unsupported by factual allegations”… . Here, the only factual allegations in the third cause of action concern the actions of other defendants not involved in this appeal; therefore, plaintiffs’ conclusory allegations with respect to defendants fail to state a valid cause of action for negligent training and supervision against them … . Bratge v Simons, 2018 NY Slip Op 08778, Fourth Dept 12-21-18

 

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