Caceres v. Standard Realty Associates, Inc.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen A. Rakower, J.), entered May 12, 2014, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied plaintiffs’ motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability on the Labor Law § 240 (1) claim, reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion granted.

Plaintiffs Luis Caceres and Maria Caceres, suing derivatively, commenced this action for personal injuries Luis Caceras sustained on August 3, 2009, when, standing on an A-frame ladder framing a wall in a bedroom to make a closet, he fell. The framing work required plaintiff to…