Legal Opinion
Booth v. 3669 Delaware, Inc.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided October 20, 1998PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.
Plaintiff, a drywall installer, injured his knee while working on stilts in the course of his employment. Ten months after his injury, plaintiff signed a document captioned “release of all claims," offered by a representative of defendant Benderson Development’s insurance carrier. That document, by its terms, relieved both Benderson and defendant Northeast Mechanical of “any and every claim * * * or cause of action of whatever kind and nature * * * especially the liability arising from”…
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