Joseph Criscione, Respondent, Plaintiff v. City of New York, Appellants, Defendant

Summary

The New York Court of Appeals held that a police officer responding to a 911 dispatch call is engaged in an “emergency operation” under Vehicle and Traffic Law § 114‑b, thereby invoking the statutory qualified privilege and the reckless‑disregard standard of liability. Accordingly, the Court reversed the Appellate Division’s judgment and ordered a new trial.