Legal Opinion
DePalma v. Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 24, 2003PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy Friedman, J.), entered September 27, 2002, which, inter alia, denied plaintiffs motion for partial summary judgment as to liability on her Labor Law § 240 (1) claim, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, plaintiffs motion granted and the matter remanded for further proceedings.
Plaintiffs husband was killed in a 35-foot fall from a 12-inch-wide flange beam to the 33rd floor roof of a building in which air conditioning equipment was being installed. Decedent’s job was to operate a derrick’s swing gear, a hydraulic mechanism that moves the…
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