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THE CONTINUING WRONG DOCTRINE APPLIES TO THIS COMPLEX BREACH OF CONTRACT ACTION SUCH THAT EACH BREACH WAS AN ACTIONABLE EVENT; THEREFORE THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS DID NOT START RUNNING FOR ALL SUBSEQUENT BREACHES WHEN THE FIRST BREACH OCCURRED (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, in a full-fledged opinion by Justice Mazzarelli, over a two-justice dissent, reversing Supreme Court, determined the continuing wrong doctrine applied to this breach of contract action such that each breach was actionable and, therefore, the statute of limitations for all subsequent breaches was not triggered by the first breach. The subjects of the contracts were commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS). The complaint alleged defendant CWCI breached a collateral management agreement (CMA):

Generally speaking, a claim accrues for statute of limitations purposes when “all of the factual circumstances necessary to establish a right of action have occurred, so that the plaintiff would be entitled to relief” … . However, the mere fact that a claim has accrued and the time to bring an action on it has commenced to run does not mean that a new claim, with a new limitations period, may not arise out of a new set of facts that forms part of a series with the original wrong. [Plaintiff] maintains that the allegations against CWCI comprise such a series of individual wrongs. Thus, it relies on cases such as Bulova Watch Co. v Celotex Corp. (46 NY2d 606 [1979]). There, a new claim, with a new limitations period, was held to have accrued each time the plaintiff, the obligee under a bond that guaranteed that the defendant roofer would make repairs necessary to ensure the watertightness of the plaintiff’s roof over the 20-year life of the bond, asked the defendant, to no avail, to repair a leak. Accordingly, the plaintiff’s failure to commence suit within the limitations period based on the initial leak did not bar the action. * * *

We find that the continuing wrong doctrine does apply to this case. CWCapital Cobalt VR Ltd. v CWCapital Invs. LLC, 2021 NY Slip Op 02487, First Dept 4-27-21

 

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