Maurantonio v. State

—In a proceeding pursuant to Court of Claims Act § 10 (6) for leave to serve a late claim, the claimant appeals from an order of the Court of *291Claims (Ruderman, J.), dated August 6, 1998, which denied the application.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The Court of Claims did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying the claimant’s application for leave to serve a late claim (see, Court of Claims Act § 10 [6]; Matter of Gallagher v State of New York, 236 AD2d 400; Matter of Soble v State of New York, 189 AD2d 970; Matter of Donaldson v State of New York, 167 AD2d 805,…