Huggler v. City of New York

In a proceeding pursuant to General Municipal Law § 50-e (5) for leave to serve late notices of claim, the City of New York appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Mastro, J.), dated May 26, 2000, which granted the application.

*241Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the application is denied.

The petitioners worked on a City of New York sewer tunnel project in Staten Island in 1991 and 1992. They were diagnosed with “caisson disease,” commonly known as “the bends” in 1998, and claimed that this condition was caused by exposure to compressed air…