Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2000

Watson v. New York City Transit Authority

Watson v. New York City Transit Authority
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided February 3, 2000
269 A.D.2d 162; 701 N.Y.S.2d 901; 2000 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1044
Watson v. New York City Transit Authority

Opinion of the Court

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert Lippmann, J.), entered on or about April 26, 1999, which, in an action against defendant Transit Authority for personal injuries sustained when plaintiff fell onto subway tracks, insofar as appealed from, denied plaintiffs motion to amend the complaint so as to add his wife as a party and include a cause of action for loss of consortium, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The motion, which constitutes the first notice of the proposed claim for loss of consortium that plaintiff has given defendant, was properly denied on the ground that it was not made within the one year and 90-day Statute of Limitations (Public Authorities Law § 1212 [4]; General Municipal Law § 50-e [5]). Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Williams, Mazzarelli, Wallach and Lerner, JJ.

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