The issue on this appeal is whether Supreme Court properly exercised its discretion in granting petitioner's application for leave to serve on respondent New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation a notice of claim after the statutory 90 days had expired. We hold that it did.
On December 12, 2014, petitioner John Townson (Townson), an electrician, was treated at Bellevue Hospital's (Bellevue) emergency room for a deep laceration to his right thumb. Townson had...
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