Brennan v. Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael D. Stallman, J.), entered January 27, 2012, denying petitioners’ motion to file a late notice of claim, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Petitioners’ stated ignorance of the requirements of General Municipal Law § 50-e is not a reasonable excuse for failure to timely file a notice of claim (see Rodriguez v New York City Health & Hosps. Corp. [Jacobi Med. Ctr.], 78 AD3d 538 [1st Dept 2010], lv denied 17 NY3d 718 [2011]). Petitioners also failed to demonstrate that the delay was due to petitioner Michael Brennan’s injuries since he returned…