Legal Opinion
Lefkowitz v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 2, 2000PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Lottie Wilkins, J.), entered March 8, 1999, which denied petitioner’s application to serve a late notice of claim for personal injuries sustained in a fall caused by a sidewalk defect, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
It does not avail petitioner to assert that he did not know that he sustained bone fractures, and not just soft tissue injury, until some 10 months after the accident, absent medical evidence explaining why the serious nature of injury took so long to become apparent and diagnose (see, Gaudio v City of New York, 235 AD2d 228). In…
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- Turkenitz v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
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