Wally G. v. New York City Health & Hosps. Corp. (Metropolitan Hospital)

by Acosta, J.,

as follows: This appeal involves the propriety of denying a motion for leave to file a late notice of claim, made pursuant to General Municipal Law § 50-e (5) in a medical malpractice action against defendant New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC or Metropolitan Hospital), in which it is alleged that the medical staff failed to properly render both prenatal and postnatal care to the infant plaintiff and to properly manage his mother’s labor and delivery at 27 weeks’ gestation. Plaintiff argued that HHC acquired actual knowledge of the essential facts constituting…