Sayles v. Ferone

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen A. Rakower, J.), entered September 23, 2014, which denied the motion of third-party defendant Alan Drezin (Drezin) to dismiss the second and third causes of action of the third-party complaint, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of dismissing the third cause of action for breach of fiduciary duty, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

An aiding and abetting cause of action must allege facts giving rise to a strong inference that the defendant actually knew of the underlying harm or was wilfully blind to it, and rendered substantial…