Legal Opinion

Belinda L. G. v. Fresh Air Fund

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided May 7, 1992PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

— Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Bertram Katz, J.), entered May 13, 1991, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

We agree with the IAS court that even if it is assumed that defendant was negligent in failing to personally and more thoroughly reinterview the host family, third-party defendant’s alleged assault of the child was not a foreseeable consequence of such failure, given that defendant had a successful nine-year history of child placement with this family with whom plaintiff had spent enjoyable and uneventful vacations during…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Fornaro v. KerryAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1988

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. De'L. A. v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2017
  2. Tennant v. LascelleAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2018
  3. Tuttle v. Housing Opportunities Management & Essential Services, Inc.New York Supreme Court · 2001

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