Heller v. Louis Provenzano, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Sullivan, J.
This is an appeal in an action for personal injuries from the grant of a motion to amend the complaint, made more than six years after the commencement of the action, to assert a claim for punitive damages.
On January 3, 1990, the then 60-year-old plaintiff, an attorney, tripped and fell as he exited a freight elevator in a parking garage at 34 Leonard Street in Manhattan, sustaining, as a result, multiple fractures of the bones in his left arm, which required four operations. Plaintiff thereafter commenced this action against defendants, the garage owners,…
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