GRIFFIN v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY


1 A.D.3d 141 (2003)

767 N.Y.S.2d 15

JANICE GRIFFIN, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of BRUCE GRIFFIN, Deceased, Appellant, v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY, Respondent and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. T. MORIARTY & SONS, INC., Third-Party Defendant-Respondent and Second Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL et al., Second Third-Party Defendants-Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

November 6, 2003.


While leave to amend a pleading is freely given (CPLR 3025 [b]), the court properly exercised its discretion in denying such leave since plaintiff failed to support her motion with "competent medical proof of the causal connection between the [accident] and the death of the original plaintiff" (McGuire v Small, 129 A.D.2d 429 [1987]). Plaintiff's decedent sustained injuries when he fell...

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