Legal Opinion
Luongo v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 29, 2010PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Paul A. Victor, J.), entered March 17, 2009, which granted plaintiffs motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability under Labor Law § 240 (1), unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff was injured while bracing a hydraulic jack that was being used to lift a steel girder beneath an elevated subway line. He braced the base of the jack because it kept falling over, partly, according to plaintiff, because of the uneven surface and because the girder was simply too heavy for the type of jack that was being used. In order to give the jack more…
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