Ryan v. Powers & Santola, LLP

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court *1274(Lynch, J.), entered October 20, 2009 in Rensselaer County, which, among other things, denied plaintiffs’ motion for partial summary judgment.

While dining at a T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant with his wife and daughter in September 1999, plaintiff Matthew J. Ryan was struck on the head by a highchair being moved by a restaurant employee. Plaintiffs retained defendants Powers & S.antola, LLP and Pechenik & Curro, P.C. to represent them in a negligence action against T.G.I. Friday’s, Inc. and Carlson Restaurants Worldwide, Inc.1

The underlying personal injury…