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PLAINTIFF’S DECEDENT WAS SHOT IN A DARK AREA OF DEFENDANT NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY’S (NYCHA’S) APARTMENT COMPLEX; THE NOTICE OF CLAIM ALLEGED THE LACK OF LIGHTING CONSTITUTED NEGLIGENT SECURITY; THE ADDITIONAL ALLEGATIONS OF SECURITY-RELATED NEGLIGENCE IN THE BILL OF PARTICULARS SHOULD HAVE BEEN STRUCK (SECOND DEPT).

​The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined certain allegations of negligence in the bill of particulars should have been struck because the notice of claim did not provide notice of them. The appellate division interpreted the notice of claim to allege that the lack of security at defendant’s apartment complex stemmed from inadequate lighting. Plaintiff’s decedent was shot and killed in an area which, allegedly, was completely dark. The additional claims of negligence in the bill of particulars were struck:

… [T]he crux of the notice of claim is that [defendant] NYCHA was negligent in failing to provide adequate security by failing to provide adequate lighting at the location where the decedent was shot and killed … .

… [T]he notice of claim did not directly or indirectly reference those allegations raised in … the bill of particulars that concern NYCHA’s failure to protect tenants from criminal activities and criminal intrusions, NYCHA’s failure to remove alleged known criminals from its premises in violation of its Permanent Exclusion Policy and Real Property Law § 231(2), NYCHA’s failure to install CCTV cameras, and the alleged sale of drugs on NYCHA premises. These allegations go beyond mere amplification of the inadequate lighting allegation and are instead new, distinct, and independent theories of liability that cannot be corrected pursuant to General Municipal Law § 50-e(6) … .Mosley v City of New York, 2023 NY Slip Op 03345, Second Dept 6-21-23

Practice Point: The General Municipal Law section 50-e(6) allows mistakes or omissions from a notice of claim to be overlooked where the defendant is not prejudiced. Here the appellate division interpreted the notice of claim to allege the defendant housing authority’s only negligence was the failure to provide adequate lighting in the area where plaintiff’s decedent was shot. Therefore the additional allegations of negligent security in the bill of particulars (“failure to protect tenants from criminal activities and criminal intrusions, NYCHA’s failure to remove alleged known criminals from its premises in violation of its Permanent Exclusion Policy and Real Property Law § 231(2), NYCHA’s failure to install CCTV cameras, and the alleged sale of drugs on NYCHA premises“) should have been struck.

 

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