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NEW YORK DOES NOT RECOGNIZE SPOLIATION OF EVIDENCE AS AN INDEPENDENT TORT, THE COMPLAINT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DISMISSED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiff’s complaint should have been dismissed for failure to state a cause of action. Plaintiff was injured falling off a forklift platform. Plaintiff alleged defendants negligently destroyed or failed to preserve the forklift platform, thereby making it impossible to sue the manufacturer. The Second Department held that there is no such tort:

Here, the plaintiff’s sole purported cause of action seeks to recover for the negligent impairment of an employee’s right to sue, which is, in effect, an allegation of spoliation … , and New York does not recognize spoliation of evidence as an independent tort. Lopez-Lobo v U.S. Nonwovens Corp., 2020 NY Slip Op 01053, Second Dept 2-13-20

 

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