Alvarado v. French Council LLC

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert D. Kalish, J.), entered February 19, 2016, which granted defendants’ motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, and denied plaintiff’s cross motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability on his Labor Law § 240 (1) claim, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff was injured when, while doing plastering work during the course of a renovation of a residence, he fell approximately six feet from a makeshift scaffold. The record shows that plaintiff’s Labor Law § 200 and common-law negligence claims, which were premised…