MID HUDSON VALLEY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION v. QUARTARARO LOIS PLLC (2018)

Court of Appeals of New York.

MID–HUDSON VALLEY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, Appellant, v. QUARTARARO & LOIS, PLLC et al., Respondents.

No. 108 SSM 9

Decided: June 07, 2018

Luibrand Law Firm, PLLC, Latham (Kevin A. Luibrand of counsel), for appellant. Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP, Hawthorne (Hillary J. Raimondi of counsel), for respondents.

OPINION OF THE COURT

On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.11 of the Rules, order insofar as appealed from affirmed, with costs. The Appellate Division properly concluded that plaintiff Mid–Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union did not state a claim for legal malpractice against defendants Paul Quartararo and Quartararo & Lois, PLLC insofar as the amended complaint failed to allege facts “sufficiently particular to give the court and [defendants] notice of the transactions, occurrences, or series of transactions or occurrences, intended to be proved” (CPLR 3013).

Chief Judge DiFiore and Judges Rivera, Stein, Fahey, Garcia, Wilson and Feinman concur.

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