Law Offs. of Thomas F. Liotti, LLC v. State of New York

In a claim, inter alia, to recover damages for negligence and fraud, the claimants appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Court of Claims (Lopez-Summa, J.), dated March 19, 2013, as granted that branch of the motion of the defendants State of New York, Daniel Palmieri, Ira Warshawsky, Arthur Diamond, Ute Wolff Lally, Thomas Dana, Raymond J. Cunningham, and Brian Fischer which was pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7) to dismiss the claim insofar as asserted against them, and, sua sponte, in effect, directed the dismissal of the claim insofar as asserted against the…