Blessinger v. Estee Lauder Companies

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barbara Kapnick, J.), *364entered July 1, 1997, which denied third-party defendant’s motion to dismiss the third-party complaint as barred by Workers’ Compensation Law § 11, as amended by section 2 of the Omnibus Workers’ Compensation Reform Act of 1996 (L 1996, ch 635 [the Act]), unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The issue is whether the Act, which extinguishes the right to contribution from a plaintiffs employer, except in limited circumstances not present here, bars a third-party action for contribution against the employer that was commenced after…