Marine Midland Bank v. McCarthy, Fingar, Donovan, Drazen & Smith

—In an action to recover damages for legal malpractice, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Nastasi, J.), entered May 19, 1999, which denied its motion to dismiss the complaint as time-barred.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

Effective September 4, 1996, the Legislature amended CPLR 214 (6) to provide that the Statute of Limitations for all claims of professional malpractice, other than medical, dental, or podiatric, was to be three years, regardless of how the claim was pleaded (see, L 1996, ch 623, § 1; cf., Santulli v Englert, Reilly &…