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ELDERLY PLAINTIFF’S HEALTH PROBLEMS EXCUSED HER FAILURE TO APPEAR FOR A 50-h HEARING, COMPLAINT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the elderly plaintiff’s complaint, based upon a fall at defendant’s city hospital, should not have been dismissed because plaintiff failed to appear at an oral examination pursuant to General Municipal Law 50-h. Her failure to appear was due to medical problems and should have been excused:

“Compliance with a demand for a General Municipal Law § 50-h examination is a condition precedent to the commencement of an action against a municipal defendant, and the failure to so comply warrants dismissal of the action”  … . The failure to submit to such an examination, however, may be excused in exceptional circumstances, such as extreme physical or psychological incapacity … .

Under the circumstances of this case, the plaintiff’s failure to appear for the examination pursuant to General Municipal Law § 50-h should have been excused in light of the nature and extent of the plaintiff’s medical and mental conditions, as documented by her doctors’ letters … . Riabaia v New York City Health & Hosps. Corp., 2019 NY Slip Op 02136, Second Dept 3-20-19

 

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