Kaplan v. Tai Properties, L.L.C.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan M. Kenney, J.), entered on or about May 6, 2016, which denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion granted. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment accordingly.

Plaintiff, a tenant in a building owned and managed by defendants, sustained a burn injury to her head when she used a match to try to light a burner on the top of her gas stove because the stove’s igniter did not work. There is no dispute that plaintiff herself had bought the stove and had it…