Rao v. Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Jane Solomon, J.), entered on or about September 8, 1994, which granted petitioner’s application for leave to serve a late notice of claim, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Petitioner’s showing of respondent’s receipt of actual knowledge of the underlying facts by reason of the involvement of its employee in the accident and its filing of a police accident report, and the absence of prejudice by reason of this virtually immediate knowledge, warrants the granting of leave (see, Matter of Soto v New York City Hous. Auth., 180 AD2d 570). Unlike the…