Urena v. City of New York

—In an action, inter alia, to recover damages based on false arrest, assault, negligent hiring, and malicious prosecution, the plaintiffs appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Price, J.), dated May 19, 1994, as granted the branch of the defendants’ cross motion which was to dismiss the fourth cause of action based on negligent hiring.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

Eight notices of claim were filed by four separate plaintiffs stating that their claims arose as the result of their having been the…