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Proof that a Floor is Inherently Slippery, Standing Alone, Will Not Support a Negligence Cause of Action

The First Department determined summary judgment dismissing the slip and fall complaint was properly granted.  Plaintiff, who suffered from dementia, did not remember the fall and proof the floor was inherently slippery, without more, was insufficient to support the action:

The duty of an owner of property to maintain his or her premises so that they are reasonably safe …extends to any hazardous condition about which the owner has actual or constructive notice. Except where the landowner created the defective condition, thereby affording actual notice …, it is incumbent upon the injured party to establish that the condition was either known to the owner or had existed for a sufficient period of time to have allowed the owner to discover and correct it

Here, plaintiff is alleged to have fallen as a result of a slippery floor. Plaintiff was unable to supply any information about the circumstances of the accident. Plaintiff failed to explain how she took two or three steps from a chair in the procedure room and slipped and fell down the basement stairs that were located in the back of the adjacent waiting room. As pointed out by defendant, “Plaintiff would have had to slipped [sic] all the way across the length of the office (waiting room) and made a 180 degree turn before reaching the top of the stairs.” Moreover, [plaintiff’s daughter] conceded that she did not know what caused her mother to fall and had not noticed that the floor was slippery. Finally, there is no evidence of any prior injury or complaint about the floor to support the conclusion that [defendant] should have known about the allegedly hazardous condition … . Proof that a floor is “inherently slippery,” standing alone, is insufficient to support a cause of action for negligence…, and the complaint was properly dismissed. Caicedo v Sanchez, 2014 NY Slip Op 02663, 1st Dept 4-17-14

 

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