Gettys v. Port Authority

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Stuart Cohen, J.), entered on or about March 18, 1997, which denied plaintiffs’ motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability, pursuant to Labor Law § 240, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the motion granted, and the matter remanded for an assessment of damages.

In the wake of the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center, plaintiff Herbert Gettys was performing electrical repair work in basement level B-4 of Building 1, in April 1994, when he fell from an elevated platform and suffered injury. In his December 1995…