Legal Opinion
Schifano v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 20, 2004PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*260Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Paul A. Victor, J.), entered March 19, 2003, which denied petitioners’ application for leave to serve a late notice of claim, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Petitioner construction worker’s excuse for not serving a timely notice of claim—that the seriousness of his injuries resulting from a trip and fall on heavy construction debris at a city construction site was not immediately apparent—is refuted by evidence that, inter alia, he intermittently missed several weeks of work during the three-month period immediately following the accident. Moreover,…
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