Case Name: Valerie Koss, Plaintiff, v. Board of Trustees of the Fashion Institute of Technology, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant. Ogden Allied Building and Support Services, Third-Party Defendant-Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2001-03-08
Citations: 281 A.D.2d 200
Docket Number: 
Parties: Valerie Koss, Plaintiff, v Board of Trustees of the Fashion Institute of Technology, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant. Ogden Allied Building and Support Services, Third-Party Defendant-Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 281
Pages: 200–201

Head Matter:
Valerie Koss, Plaintiff, v Board of Trustees of the Fashion Institute of Technology, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant. Ogden Allied Building and Support Services, Third-Party Defendant-Respondent.
[727 NYS2d 303]

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Jane Solomon, J.), entered on or about August 24, 2000, which, to the extent appealed from, denied that part of third-party plaintiff's motion seeking leave to amend the third-party complaint to add a cause of action for contractual indemnification, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Since the agreement pursuant to which the third-party de fendant provided building and grounds services contains no indemnification provision, the third-party plaintiffs proposed cause of action for contractual indemnification was plainly without merit and, thus, leave to amend the third-party complaint so as to add the proposed cause for contractual indemnification was properly denied (see, Sharon Ava & Co. v Olympic Tower Assocs., 259 AD2d 315, 316). Concur — Sullivan, P. J., Rosenberger, Mazzarelli, Buckley and Friedman, JJ.