Legal Opinion
O'CONNOR v. State
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 23, 1987PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.
Claimant’s decedent was crossing a street on the State Office Building Campus in Albany in a marked pedestrian crosswalk when he was struck and killed by a bicyclist involved in a time trial. Claimant sued the cyclist and others involved in the time trial in Supreme Court, where damages were assessed at $980,000 and comparative negligence was found to be 60%. The claimant then commenced this action against the State in the Court of Claims, where the court found that the decedent and the State…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Schwartz v. Public AdministratorNew York Court of Appeals · 1969
- Kush v. City of BuffaloNew York Court of Appeals · 1983
- Scurti v. City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
- Morell v. BalasubramanianNew York Court of Appeals · 1987
- O'Connor v. G&R Packing Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1981
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Jayant Khandhar, Jyoti Khandhar v. Joseph Charles Elfenbein, M.D. And James Richard Dickson, M.D.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1991
- Dennis Kathios v. General Motors CorporationCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1988
- Thornhill v. Toys "R" Us NYTEX, Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992
- Rosario v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1990
- Allstate Insurance v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1991
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