Nasuro v. PI Associates, LLC
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*830“A prime contractor hired for a specific project is subject to liability under Labor Law § 240 as a statutory agent of the owner or general contractor only if it has been ‘delegated the . . . work in which plaintiff was engaged at the time of his injury,’ and is therefore ‘responsible for the work giving rise to the duties referred to in and imposed by [the statute]’ ” (Coque v Wildflower Estates Devs., Inc., 31 AD3d 484, 488 [2006], quoting Russin v Louis N. Picciano & Son, 54 NY2d 311, 318 [1981]). “[T]he nondelegable liability imposed by Labor Law § 240 (1) attaches only to a contractor…
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