Alves v. Petik

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Arlene P. Bluth, J.), entered October 22, 2014, which, insofar as appealed from, in this action for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff pedestrian when she was struck by a vehicle operated by defendant Ghazaryan Petik, granted the motion of defendant Vital Transportation, Inc. (Vital) for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against it, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The motion court properly found that Petik was an independent contractor of Vital, a car dispatch company. The record shows that Petik worked without a schedule, at his own…