Diaz v. City of Yonkers
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*683In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Tolbert, J), dated August 12, 2011, which granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
A school has a duty to exercise the same degree of care toward its students as would a reasonably prudent parent (see Mirand v City of New York, 84 NY2d 44, 49 [1994]). A school, however, is not an insurer of its students’ safety, and will be held liable only for foreseeable injuries proximately…
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