Diarra v. NJS Carpentry

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Arlene P. Bluth, J.), entered November 12, 2014, which granted plaintiff’s motion for leave to amend the complaint to include a claim for punitive damages, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

According to a police report, at the time defendant Peter Ferentinos’s vehicle rear-ended plaintiff’s vehicle at an intersection, defendant had a blood alcohol level of 0.27% and was visibly intoxicated. In addition, Ferentinos testified during his deposition that on the evening of the accident, he consumed alcohol in New Jersey and then drove to Manhattan, where he…