Case Name: Rosa Miranda, Respondent, v. New York City Transit Authority, Appellant, et al., Defendants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1999-06-22
Citations: 262 A.D.2d 199
Docket Number: 
Parties: Rosa Miranda, Respondent, v New York City Transit Authority, Appellant, et al., Defendants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 262
Pages: 199–200

Head Matter:
Rosa Miranda, Respondent, v New York City Transit Authority, Appellant, et al., Defendants.
[694 NYS2d 352]

Opinion:
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barbara Kapnick, J.), entered January 8, 1998, which granted plaintiff's motion for leave to file a late notice of claim, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Although defendant Transit Authority urges that it has been prejudiced by plaintiff's delay in filing a notice of claim and that plaintiff's motion for leave to file a late notice of claim should have been denied, accident reports prepared by the bus driver and a supervisor immediately after the subject accident, documenting the circumstances of plaintiff's injury, provided defendant with timely actual knowledge of the essential facts constituting the claim (see, General Municipal Law § 50-e [5]). Accordingly, defendant's claim of prejudice is fatally undermined. Concur — Rosenberger, J. P., Williams, Tom, Wallach and Buckley, JJ.