Legal Opinion
Matter of Abdul v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided September 23, 2015No. 2014-08275PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
In a proceeding pursuant to General Municipal Law § 50-e (5) for leave to serve a late notice of claim, the petitioner appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Jimenez Salta, J.), dated June 20, 2014, which denied the petition.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
In order to maintain a tort action against a municipality, General Municipal Law § 50-e (1) (a) requires a claimant to serve a notice of claim upon that municipality within 90 days of the date that the claim arose (see Matter of Felice v Eastport/ South Manor Cent. School Dist., 50 AD3d 138, 143 [2008]).…
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- Cockburn v. Town of MinaNew York Supreme Court · 2016