Opinion
December 2, 1985
Appeal from the Court of Claims (Murray, J.).
Order affirmed, with costs.
It was not an abuse of discretion for the Court of Claims to deny claimants' application. Since claimants were represented by counsel in this matter from the time the claims arose, the delay of over 2 1/2 years in asserting these claims in the proper forum is wholly inexcusable and by itself constitutes a ground for denying the application (see, Innis v State of New York, 92 A.D.2d 606, affd 60 N.Y.2d 654). In any event, the proposed claims do not appear meritorious. Gibbons, J.P., Bracken, Kunzeman and Kooper, JJ., concur.