SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department

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PRESENT: CENTRA, J.P., PERADOTTO, CARNI, SCONIERS, AND WHALEN, JJ. 

 

JOHN HATZFELD, CLAIMANT-APPELLANT, 

V MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

STATE OF NEW YORK, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT. 

(CLAIM NO. 118925.) 

 

JOHN HATZFELD, CLAIMANT-APPELLANT PRO SE. 

ERIC T. SCHNEIDERMAN, ATTORNEY GENERAL, ALBANY (PAUL GROENWEGEN OF

COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT. 

 

Appeal from an order of the Court of Claims (Renee Forgensi

Minarik, J.), entered October 19, 2011. The order granted the motion

of defendant to dismiss the claim and dismissed the claim. 

It is hereby ORDERED that the order so appealed from is

unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: In this personal injury and medical malpractice

action, claimant appeals from an order that, inter alia, granted

defendant’s motion to dismiss the claim on the grounds that the

negligence claims were untimely and that claimant failed to state a

cause of action for medical malpractice. Although claimant timely

filed a written notice of intention to file a claim for the alleged

negligence of defendant based upon an incident that occurred on March

5, 2008 in which claimant fell from his upper bunk at the Cayuga

Correctional Facility, he failed to comply with Court of Claims Act §

10 (3) because he did not file the claim with respect to that incident

until September 10, 2010, more than two years after the claim’s

accrual. “Failure to comply with either the filing or service

provisions of the Court of Claims Act results in a lack of subject

matter jurisdiction requiring dismissal of the claim” (Tooks v State

of New York, 40 AD3d 1347, 1348, lv denied 9 NY3d 814). The Court of

Claims therefore properly dismissed the claim insofar as it is based

on the March 5, 2008 incident (see id.). Similarly, the court

properly dismissed the claim insofar as claimant alleged that he was

negligently transported to the hospital on September 16, 2008 inasmuch

as he failed to file a notice of intention to file a claim or a claim

with respect to that incident within 90 days after the claim’s accrual

(see § 10 [3]; see also Wilson v State of New York, 61 AD3d 1367,

1368). 

Contrary to the contention of claimant, the continuous treatment
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doctrine does not render his negligence claims timely. That doctrine

applies only to an “action for medical, dental or podiatric

malpractice” (CPLR 214-a). Also, although we agree with claimant that

Court of Claims Act § 10 (6) permits a court to allow a claimant to

file a late claim, claimant seeks that relief for the first time on

appeal, and thus his contention that he should be afforded such relief

is not properly before us (see A.F. v State of New York, 60 AD3d 1222,

1223; Calderazzo v State of New York, 74 AD2d 954, 954-955; see

generally Ciesinski v Town of Aurora, 202 AD2d 984, 985).

With respect to that part of the claim alleging medical

malpractice, we conclude that claimant failed to allege that there was

a deviation from the standard of care by the healthcare providers or

that any such deviation caused his injuries. The court therefore

properly dismissed the claim to that extent as well (see Parker v

State of New York, 242 AD2d 785, 786).

Finally, claimant contends for the first time on appeal that

defendant’s motion to dismiss was untimely, and thus that contention

is not properly before us (see Ciesinski, 202 AD2d at 985).

Entered: March 15, 2013 Frances E. Cafarell

Clerk of the Court