COFFEY v. CITY OF NEW YORK


49 A.D.3d 449 (2008)

853 N.Y.S.2d 551

ANGELETTE COFFEY et al., Appellants, v. CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Respondents, et al., Defendant. (And Third-Party Actions.) FRANK MARCOTRIGIANO et al., Appellants, v. ANGELETTE COFFEY et al., Defendants, and CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Respondents. TAMMY MACK, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of PASCAL LEE TRENT III, Deceased, Appellant, v. ANGELETTE COFFEY et al., Defendants, and CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Respondents.

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

Decided March 25, 2008.


Plaintiff Angelette Coffey and decedents were injured on New Year's Eve 1998 when their automobile was rear-ended by a vehicle driven by defendant Rodriguez, a city correction officer later determined to be intoxicated. The record reflects that Rodriguez had been sent for inpatient alcohol rehabilitation three years earlier, due to persistent lateness and absenteeism. After release, he failed to continue treatment on an outpatient basis. His record of employment reveals various...

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