Cruz v. Montefiore Medical Center

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Norma Ruiz, J.), entered on or about July 7, 2006, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff, a security guard, was chasing a suspicious man in defendant hospital’s parking garage when he slipped and fell on a stairway. In support of the motion, defendant presented deposition testimony from its supervisory employees to the effect that they had no knowledge of any prior complaints or incidents concerning the condition of the stairs, and from plaintiff, who admitted that he…