Adrian v. Good Neighbor Apartment Associates

—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Jerry Crispino, J.), entered June 24, 1999, which denied plaintiff’s motion for spoliation sanctions, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the motion granted, and defendants’ proof of abatement precluded on the issue of lead paint on the radiators.

In 1996 plaintiff’s four infant children were diagnosed with lead poisoning, one of them registering a blood level as high as 24 micrograms of lead per deciliter. The New York City Health Department inspected plaintiff’s apartment, owned and managed by defendants, and determined that surfaces on three…