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APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO FILE A LATE NOTICE OF CLAIM SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED, ALTHOUGH THE EXCUSE WAS NOT REASONABLE, THE NOTICE WAS ONLY TWO WEEKS LATE AND THERE WAS NO SHOWING DEFENDANT WAS PREJUDICED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined petitioner’s application for leave to file a late notice of claim in this sidewalk slip and fall case should have been granted. Petitioner’s counsel served a timely notice on the city but the abutting owner was the NYC Housing Authority (NYCHA). The notice was served on the NYCHA two weeks after the expiration of the 90-day period:

… [W]hile the petitioner’s counsel’s error concerning the identity of the responsible public corporation does not provide a reasonable excuse for the delay in giving notice … , the absence of a reasonable excuse is not, standing alone, fatal to the petitioner’s application …. Notably, considering that the petitioner’s application was made approximately two weeks after the expiration of the 90-day period, NYCHA acquired actual knowledge of the essential facts constituting the claim within a “reasonable time” after the expiration of the 90-day period (General Municipal Law § 50-e[5]…).

Moreover, the petitioner met her initial burden of showing that the late notice will not substantially prejudice NYCHA, thereby requiring NYCHA “to rebut that showing with particularized evidence” … . NYCHA’s conclusory assertion of substantial prejudice was insufficient to rebut the petitioner’s showing. Matter of Ramos v New York City Hous. Auth., 2018 NY Slip Op 04547, Second Dept 6-20-18

​MUNICIPAL LAW (NEGLIGENCE, NOTICE OF CLAIM, APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO FILE A LATE NOTICE OF CLAIM SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED, ALTHOUGH THE EXCUSE WAS NOT REASONABLE, THE NOTICE WAS ONLY TWO WEEKS LATE AND THERE WAS NO SHOWING DEFENDANT WAS PREJUDICED (SECOND DEPT))/NEGLIGENCE (MUNICIPAL LAW, NOTICE OF CLAIM, APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO FILE A LATE NOTICE OF CLAIM SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED, ALTHOUGH THE EXCUSE WAS NOT REASONABLE, THE NOTICE WAS ONLY TWO WEEKS LATE AND THERE WAS NO SHOWING DEFENDANT WAS PREJUDICED (SECOND DEPT))/NOTICE OF CLAIM (MUNICIPAL LAW, NEGLIGENCE, APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO FILE A LATE NOTICE OF CLAIM SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED, ALTHOUGH THE EXCUSE WAS NOT REASONABLE, THE NOTICE WAS ONLY TWO WEEKS LATE AND THERE WAS NO SHOWING DEFENDANT WAS PREJUDICED (SECOND DEPT))

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