Legal Opinion
On v. BKO Express LLC
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 17, 2017No. 307160/11 1753PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Saxe, J.
This appeal requires us to consider, once again, a seminal issue that has been central to our study of tort law since Palsgraf v Long Is. R.R. Co. (248 NY 339 [1928])—how the foreseeability of harm interconnects with the imposition of a duty in tort. The facts are as follows:
On a late, rainy summer night in 2009, defendant Mohamed Laaribi, a livery cab driver for defendant BKO Express LLC, picked up two fares from a street hail after he had stopped for a red light. The passengers asked Laaribi to take them to a Hunts Point address in the Bronx, and gave him some…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1928
- Pulka v. EdelmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
- Palka v. Servicemaster Management Services Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1994
- Tobin v. GrossmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1969
- Hamilton v. Beretta U.S.A. Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 2001
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