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EMAIL DID NOT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF CPLR 2104 FOR AN OUT OF COURT STIPULATION OF SETTLEMENT, SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT NOT ENFORCEABLE (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department determined the writing and execution requirements for an out-of-court stipulation of settlement were not met by an e-mail sent by the defendant in a slip and fall case:

To be enforceable, a stipulation of settlement must conform to the criteria set forth in CPLR 2104 … . Where, as in the instant case, counsel for the parties did not enter into a settlement in open court, an “agreement between parties or their attorneys relating to any matter in an action . . . is not binding upon a party unless it is in a writing subscribed by him or his attorney” … . The plain language of CPLR 2104 requires that “the agreement itself must be in writing, signed by the party (or attorney) to be bound” … . An email message may be considered “subscribed” as required by CPLR 2104, and, therefore, capable of enforcement, where it “contains all material terms of a settlement and a manifestation of mutual accord, and the party to be charged, or his or her agent, types his or her name under circumstances manifesting an intent that the name be treated as a signature” … .

Here, the email confirming the settlement agreement was sent by counsel for the party seeking to enforce the agreement, [defendant]. There is no email subscribed by the plaintiff, who is the party to be charged, or by her former attorney. In the absence of a writing subscribed by the plaintiff or her attorney, the settlement agreement is unenforceable against the plaintiff … . Kataldo v Atlantic Chevrolet Cadillac, 2018 NY Slip Op 03669, Second Dept 5-23-18

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