Fiesel v. Nanuet Properties Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
— In a negligence action, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Rockland County (Meehan, J.), dated April 23, 1986, which denied her motion for leave to amend her complaint to add a new cause of action for punitive damages.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
We conclude that the denial of the plaintiffs motion for leave to amend her complaint to add a cause of action for punitive damages was a proper exercise of discretion. A demand for punitive damages does not amount to a separate cause of action for pleading purposes (see, e.g., Friar v Vanguard Holding…
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