Legal Opinion
Schiff v. State
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided July 11, 2006PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*527In a claim to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the defendant appeals from an order of the Court of Claims (Lack, J.), dated September 30, 2004, which granted the claimants’ motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability.
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the motion is denied.
On July 20, 2002 the claimant David Schiff (hereinafter the injured claimant) was injured while canoeing on the Peconic River in Suffolk County. The accident occurred when the injured claimant disembarked from his canoe a short distance from the shore, and impaled his leg on…
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