In Matos v. Azure Holdings II, L.P., 2020 NY Slip Op 01441 (App. Div. 1st Dept. March 3, 2020) – a personal injury slip-and-fall case – the court unanimously reversed a lower court’s order granting summary judgment to defendant. In this case, plaintiff alleges that he slipped and fell while stepping out of a combined…
Read More Bathroom Slip/Fall Case Continues Against Landlord;In Shatsky v. Highpoint Assoc. V, LLC, 2019 NY Slip Op 01825 (App. Div. 1st Dept. March 14, 2019) – a slip/trip-and-fall premises liability personal injury case – the court unanimously affirmed the lower court’s order denying defendant’s motion for summary judgment. From the decision: Triable issues of fact regarding whether defendant Bagels and More…
Read More Water Diversion Pipe Cited in Summary Judgment Denial in Slip/Trip and Fall CaseIn Lebron v. 142 S 9, LLC, 151 A.D.3d 835, 54 N.Y.S.3d 679, 680 (N.Y. App. Div. 2d Dept. June 14, 2017), the Second Department affirmed the lower court’s denial of defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s personal injury slip-and-fall case. Here, plaintiff alleged that she was injured when she slipped and fell on…
Read More Slip/Fall Plaintiff Survives Summary Judgment; Defendants Did Not Submit Evidence Regarding Specific CleaningIn Pearce v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., No. 14 CIV. 6836, 2016 WL 4540832 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 30, 2016), the court denied defendant’s summary judgment motion on plaintiff’s personal injury / slip-and-fall claim. In sum, plaintiff claimed that they were injured when they slipped on a wet substance while in defendant’s store. As explained by the court,…
Read More Slip/Fall Case Continues; Destruction of Video Leads to Inference of Constructive NoticeSo-called slip-and-fall cases, a species of “premises liability” cases, are deceptively easy/straightforward. Some may believe that if a person slips and falls on a foreign substance (e.g., water), the owner of the property is automatically liable. Not so. In Parietti v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 2016 NY Slip Op 04923 (N.Y. App. Div. 2d Dept. June…
Read More Slip/Fall Case Dismissed Against WalmartIn Brothers. v. 574 9th Ave. Rest. Corp., No. 1458, 2016 WL 3341787 (N.Y. App. Div. 1st Dept. June 16, 2016), a slip-and-fall case, the court affirmed the denial of defendants’ motion for summary judgment. From the decision: The testimony of defendant bar proprietor that he personally inspected the bathrooms and areas outside the bathrooms, just…
Read More Slip/Trip and Fall on Water/Debris Case Survives Summary Judgment