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Landlord Properly Granted Summary Judgment in Action Stemming from an Assault on Landlord’s Premises—Plaintiff Unable to Raise a Question of Fact Whether the Assailants Were Intruders, as Opposed to Tenants or Invitees

The First Department determined summary judgment was properly awarded to the landlord in an action based upon an attack upon plaintiff on the landlord’s premises.  Plaintiff was not able to raise a question of fact about whether the assailants were intruders, as opposed to tenants or invitees:

A landlord has a common-law duty to take minimal precautions to protect tenants from a third party’s foreseeable criminal conduct … . In order to recover damages, a tenant must establish that the landlord’s negligent conduct was a proximate cause of the injury … . Where a plaintiff alleges that a criminal attack in a building was proximately caused by a landlord’s failure to provide adequate security, “[the] plaintiff can recover only if the assailant was an intruder” (id. at 551). “To defeat a motion for summary judgment, a plaintiff need not conclusively establish that the assailants were intruders, but must raise triable issues of fact as to whether it was more likely than not that the assailants were intruders who gained access to the premises through the negligently-maintained entrance” … . Applying these principles, no triable issue of fact exists here because there is no evidence from which a jury could conclude, without pure speculation, that the assailants were intruders, as opposed to tenants or invitees. Hierro v New York City Hous Auth, 2014 NY Slip Op -8734, 1st Dept 12-11-14

 

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