Claim of Davidson v. New York City Housing Authority

This is a personal injury action against the City of New York and the Housing Authority in which plaintiffs move to amend their notice of claim to substitute the father of the injured infant for the mother with respect to the claim for loss of services and medical expenses.

Plaintiffs allege that the mother’s name was placed in the notice inadvertently instead of the father’s. The question is whether defendants are prejudiced by the proposed change, since the father’s claim is merely derivative of the infant’s, which claim has been properly presented and, presumably, thoroughly investigated…