Williamson ex rel. Lipper Convertibles, L.P. v. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

We respectfully dissent and would affirm, on timeliness grounds, the dismissal of the negligence-based causes of action against PricewaterhouseCoopers premised on audits it conducted from 1995 through 1999. Inasmuch as these were discrete audits conducted on a year-to-year basis, the continuous representation doctrine does not apply to alter the accrual date of these causes of action (see Levin v PricewaterhouseCoopers, 302 AD2d 287 [2003]).

*186The majority alludes to “a critical factual distinction” between Levin and the present case, viz., that there, unlike here, three years had passed between…