Legal Opinion
Laisney v. Zeller
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 30, 1996PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Order unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed without costs in accordance with the following Memorandum: Scott Laisney (plaintiff) was injured while working as an electrician on the renovation of a mall owned by defendants. The injury occurred as plaintiff was attempting to reach an electrical junction box above an 11-foot-high cooler. In order to gain access to the box, plaintiff climbed up and over a 16-foot stepladder to a set of conduit pipes suspended from the ceiling. As he crawled over two conduit pipes, one of the pipes collapsed and the other bent, causing…
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