Nieves v. Five Boro Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Corp.

—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Kenneth Thompson, Jr., J.), entered May 6, 1998, granting plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment on liability under Labor Law § 240 (1), and denying defendant’s and third-party defendant’s cross-motions for summary judgment dismissing plaintiff’s Labor Law § 240 (1) claim, unanimously modified, on the law, without costs, to deny *107plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment, and otherwise affirmed.

Plaintiff Reding Nieves (Nieves or plaintiff)* and his coworker Louis Scotto (Scotto) were employed by third-party defendant United Fire Protection (United) to…