Sterbinsky v. 780 Riverside Drive, LLC

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Manuel J. Mendez, J.), entered on or about March 13, 2015, which, to the extent appealed from, granted plaintiffs’ motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability and denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The motion court properly awarded partial summary judgment on the issue of liability based upon the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur in this action where plaintiff Steven Sterbinsky, a cable television technician, was injured when, while walking on a metal grate on…