Case Name: Marguerite Hauck, Respondent, v. New York Hilton et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2000-10-19
Citations: 276 A.D.2d 378
Docket Number: 
Parties: Marguerite Hauck, Respondent, v New York Hilton et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 276
Pages: 378–378

Head Matter:
Marguerite Hauck, Respondent, v New York Hilton et al., Appellants.
[714 NYS2d 71]

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Diane Lebedeff, J.), entered August 27, 1999, which, upon reargument, granted plaintiff's motion for permission to serve an amended complaint adding Kinney System, Inc. as a defendant, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
The motion court properly permitted plaintiff to serve an amended complaint adding Kinney System, Inc. as a defendant, since the amended complaint's cause of action against Kinney relates back to the original, timely asserted cause of action against defendant New York Hilton (see, CPLR 203 [b]; Buran v Coupal, 87 NY2d 173, 177). Kinney does not dispute that the claim against it arises out of the same incident underlying plaintiff's claim against Hilton, or that it is "united in interest" with Hilton. Further, inasmuch as Kinney indisputably had notice of plaintiffs claim, it has not been prejudiced by plaintiffs delay and it is immaterial whether plaintiffs failure originally to name Kinney as a defendant was " 'excusable' " (Buran v Coupal, supra, at 182). Concur — Tom, J. P., Mazzarelli, Lerner, Rubin and Friedman, JJ.