Legal Opinion
Hale v. Saltamacchia
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 25, 2006PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
In an action to recover damages for wrongful death, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Weiss, J.), dated May 31, 2005, which denied his motion for leave to serve an amended complaint to assert a claim for punitive damages.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the plaintiffs motion for leave to amend the complaint to add a claim for punitive damages. Evidence that the defendant driver, Anthony Saltamacchia, was convicted of leaving the scene of an accident, although reprehensible,…
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