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HERE PLAINTIFFS ALLEGED THEY WERE SEXUALLY ABUSED DECADES AGO IN MASSACHUSETTS AND SUED UNDER THE CHILD VICTIMS ACT WHICH SERVES TO EXTEND THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS; ORDINARILY THE BORROWING STATUTE APPLIES TO OUT-OF-STATE TORTS REQUIRING THE ACTION TO BE TIMELY UNDER BOTH NEW YORK AND THE FOREIGN STATE’S LAWS; HERE THE “RESIDENT EXCEPTION” APPLIED BECAUSE THE PLAINTIFF’S WERE NEW YORK RESIDENTS AT THE TIME OF THE ALLEGED ABUSE; THEREFORE THE ACTION NEED ONLY BE TIMELY UNDER NEW YORK’S CHILD VICTIMS ACT (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing (modifying) Supreme Court, determined the “resident exception” to the borrowing statute applied to New-York-resident plaintiffs who allegedly were sexually abused decades ago at a camp in Massachusetts run by Syracuse University. Ordinarily New York’s borrowing statute requires that an action for an out-of-state tort be timely under both New York’s Child Victims Act and the foreign state’s statute of limitations. However, there is an exception to that rule when the plaintiffs, abused in a foreign state, were New York residents at the time of the abuse:

“When a nonresident sues on a cause of action accruing outside New York, CPLR 202 requires the cause of action to be timely under the limitation[s] periods of both New York and the jurisdiction where the cause of action accrued” … . In tort cases, the Court of Appeals has held that “a cause of action accrues at the time and in the place of the injury” … . Thus, for [such] claims to survive, they must be timely under both CPLR 214-g and the applicable [foreign state’s] statute of limitations. …

… [Plaintiffs] were New York residents when the … causes of action accrued. Pursuant to the “resident exception” of the borrowing statute … , a claim that accrues in favor of a New York resident will be governed by the New York statute of limitations regardless of where the claim accrued (see CPLR 202 … . … [Teh Child Victims Act] revival statute applies … . Shapiro v Syracuse Univ., 2022 NY Slip Op 04835, Fourth Dept 8-4-22

Practice Point: Ordinarily an action based on out-of-state sexual abuse of a child decades ago must be timely under both New York’s Child Victim’s Act and the foreign state’s statute of limitations. However, if the child was a New York resident at the time of the out-of-state abuse, only the extended statute of limitations provided by the Child Victims Act applies.

 

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