Taylor v. County of Suffolk
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*770The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the petition for leave to serve a late notice of claim. The petitioners failed to demonstrate a reasonable excuse for their one-year delay in filing the petition. The petitioners’ alleged ignorance of the law is not a reasonable excuse for their failure to serve a timely notice of claim (see Matter of Bush v City of New York, 76 AD3d 628 [2010]; Matter of Dancy v Poughkeepsie Hous. Auth., 220 AD2d 413 [1995]), and the injured petitioner failed to submit any medical evidence to support his claim that he was incapacitated to such…
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