| Goldin v New York & Presbyt. Hosp. |
| 2013 NY Slip Op 08047 [112 AD3d 578] |
| December 4, 2013 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Aleksander Goldin, as Executor of Rakhil Goldin,Deceased, Appellant, v New York and Presbyterian Hospital et al., Defendants,and Arnold Leon Weg, Respondent. |
—[*1] Marulli, Lindenbaum, Edelman & Tomaszewski, LLP, New York, N.Y. (LisaIannone of counsel), for respondent.
In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for medical malpractice, the plaintiffappeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Steinhardt, J.), datedJanuary 12, 2012, which granted the motion of the defendant Arnold Leon Weg forsummary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against him.
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law and in the exercise of discretion, withcosts, and the motion of the defendant Arnold Leon Weg for summary judgmentdismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against him is denied.
On or about November 7, 2007, the plaintiff commenced this action against, amongothers, the defendant Arnold Leon Weg. The plaintiff filed the note of issue on July 14,2011. On September 19, 2011, Weg moved for summary judgment dismissing thecomplaint insofar as asserted against him. The Supreme Court granted the motion.
Pursuant to the Uniform Civil Term Rules of the Supreme Court, Kings County,Weg was required to make his motion for summary judgment no later than 60 days afterthe filing of the note of issue, unless he obtained leave of the court on good cause shown(see Kings County Supreme Court Uniform Civil Term Rules, part C, rule 6).Here, Weg moved for summary judgment 67 days after the note of issue was filed. Hefailed to demonstrate, in his moving papers, good cause for not filing the motion beforethe expiration of the 60-day deadline set forth in Kings County Supreme Court UniformCivil Term Rules, part C, rule 6 (see Brill v City of New York, 2 NY3d 648 [2004]). It wasan improvident exercise of the Supreme Court's discretion to entertain the summaryjudgment motion and to consider the good cause arguments raised for the first time inWeg's reply papers (see St.John's Univ. v Butler Rogers Baskett Architects, P.C., 105 AD3d 728 [2013];Cabibel v XYZ Assoc.,L.P., 36 AD3d 498 [2007]). Accordingly, Weg's motion should have beendenied as untimely. Angiolillo, J.P., Dickerson, Austin and Hinds-Radix, JJ., concur.