Clark v. Helmsley Windsor Hotel

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Gammerman, J.), entered on or about March 21, 1994, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff’s causes of action for fraudulent and negligent *366misrepresentation were properly dismissed, first because they were improper attempts to transform a simple breach of contract into tort claims (Clark-Fitzpatrick, Inc. v Long Is. R. R. Co., 70 NY2d 382, 389), and second, because plaintiffs status as an at-will employee necessarily negated any claim of reasonable reliance on the…