Forsythe v. Otsego Mutual Fire Insurance

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Jane S. Solomon, J.), entered September 9, 2009, which denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and for leave to amend its answer to assert the defense of fraud, unanimously modified, on the law, to grant so much of the motion as sought leave to amend, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

Although defendant did not move for leave to amend until approximately two years after it answered the complaint, plaintiffs do not show, or even allege, prejudice or surprise as a result of the delay (see CPLR 3025 [b]; Arellano v HSBC…