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To Be Entitled to Summary Judgment on a Labor Law 200 Cause of Action, the Defendant Must Demonstrate the Defendant (1) Did Not Control the Plaintiff’s Work and (2) Did Not Create or Have Constructive Knowledge of the Dangerous Condition

The Second Department determined summary judgment should not have been granted to defendant homeowners in this Labor Law 200 action. It was alleged the homeowners created a dangerous condition by placing an unsecured tarp in the area where plaintiff placed his ladder. Plaintiff was injured when he fell from the ladder.  The Second Department explained that the defendants, to be entitled to summary judgment, were required to demonstrate (1) they did not “have authority to supervise or control the methods or materials of the injured plaintiff’s work” and (2) they did not create the dangerous condition that caused the accident or have actual or constructive notice of the dangerous condition. Here the defendants failed to demonstrate they did not create the dangerous condition:

Where a plaintiff’s injures are alleged to have been caused by defects in both the premises and the equipment used at the work site, a defendant moving for summary judgment with respect to causes of action alleging a violation of Labor Law § 200 is obligated to address the proof applicable to both of the foregoing liability standards … . A defendant moving for summary judgment in such a case may prevail “only when the evidence exonerates it as a matter of law for all potential concurrent causes of the plaintiff’s accident and injury, and when no triable issue of fact is raised in opposition as to either relevant liability standard” … . Pacheco v Smith, 2015 NY Slip Op 04293, 2nd Dept 5-20-15

 

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