Clindinin v. New York City Housing Authority

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan A. Madden, J.), entered July 30, 2013, which denied defendant New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA) motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

NYCHA met its initial burden of establishing entitlement to judgment as a matter of law in this action where plaintiff sustained second- and third-degree burns to 13% of his body due to hot water emanating from the showerhead in the bathroom of his apartment in a building owned by NYCHA. NYCHA showed that it did not violate any duty owed to plaintiff by…