RAMOS v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY


60 A.D.3d 517 (2009)

876 N.Y.S.2d 13

VINCENT RAMOS, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of DORIS RAMOS, Deceased, Appellant, v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY, Respondent.

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

Decided March 19, 2009.


The issue presented by this appeal is whether General Municipal Law § 50-e (6) authorizes amendment of a timely served notice of claim to add a wrongful death claim.

On July 28, 2004, Doris Ramos, age 66 and confined to a wheelchair, was traveling south on an M11 bus along on 9th Avenue in Manhattan. She alleged that she was injured when the bus driver negligently placed her in the wheelchair lift at 60th Street and 9th Avenue. Ramos claimed that her wheelchair...

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