Leiva v. Marietta Trucking Corp.

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Martin Schoenfeld, J.), entered December 3, 1999, which, inter alia, granted plaintiff leave to amend his complaint to add a demand for punitive damages, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The motion court properly exercised its discretion in granting plaintiff leave to amend (see, Pchelka v Loomis-Root, Inc., 210 AD2d 889), since plaintiff’s proposed amendment was not “plainly lacking in merit” (Rahn v Carkner, 241 AD2d 585, 586). Defendants-appellants were not impermissibly prejudiced by the amendment, since they had not changed position materially or…