Fanning v. Rockefeller University

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Saliann Scarpulla, J.), entered August 13, 2012, which granted plaintiffs motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability under Labor Law § 240 (1), and denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiffs motion for partial summary judgment on his Labor Law § 240 (1) claim was properly granted. Plaintiff established prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law through *485testimony that when the unsecured ladder on which he was working suddenly moved, he fell, causing him to…