OFFOR v. MERCY MED. CTR.

8946, 152365/17.

171 A.D.3d 502 (2019)

98 N.Y.S.3d 69

2019 NY Slip Op 02663

Chinwe Offor, Appellant, v. Mercy Medical Center et al., Respondents, et al., Defendant.

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

Decided April 9, 2019.


The majority of the alleged defamatory statements, including the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) report, were made outside the one-year statute of limitations (see CPLR 215 [3]; Smulyan v New York Liquidation Bur., 158 A.D.3d 456, 457 [1st Dept 2018]). We reject plaintiff's argument, based on a 20-year-old, unreported Tennessee case applying Tennessee law (Swafford v Memphis...

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