Opinion
8476 Index 162328/15
02-21-2019
Aderonke AYANGBESAN, Plaintiff–Respondent, v. Seth FINKELSTEIN, M.D., Defendant–Appellant.
Aaronson Rappaport Feinstein & Deutsch, LLP, New York (Elliot J. Zucker of counsel), for appellant. Thomas Torto, New York (Jason Levine of counsel), for respondent.
Aaronson Rappaport Feinstein & Deutsch, LLP, New York (Elliot J. Zucker of counsel), for appellant.
Thomas Torto, New York (Jason Levine of counsel), for respondent.
Friedman, J.P., Gische, Kapnick, Gesmer, Kern, JJ.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Alice Schlesinger, J.), entered November 9, 2016, which, inter alia, denied defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint as untimely, and granted plaintiff's cross motion to dismiss the second affirmative defense based upon the statute of limitations, unanimously modified, on the law, to deny the cross motion, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.
On the record created by the parties' submissions on the motion and cross motion, triable issues exist as to whether defendant is equitably estopped to assert the affirmative defense of the statute of limitations ( Simcuski v. Saeli, 44 N.Y.2d 442, 453–454, 406 N.Y.S.2d 259, 377 N.E.2d 713 [1978] ). Accordingly, while we affirm the denial of defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint as untimely, we modify to deny plaintiff's cross motion to dismiss the affirmative defense of the statute of limitations.