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Immunity, Municipal Law, Negligence

THE CITY (NYC) HAD ENTERED A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH DEFENDANT PROPERTY OWNERS CONCERNING THE REPAIR OF A DEFECTIVE SIDEWALK, DEFENDANTS WERE ENTITLED TO CONTRIBUTION FROM THE CITY IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE.

The Second Department determined defendant property owners, the Bilellos, were entitled to contribution from the city (NYC), based upon a special relationship with the city, in a sidewalk slip and fall case. Tree roots had raised the sidewalk in front of the Bilellos property. The city issued a notice of violation to the Bilellos and the Bilellos were told by the city not to touch the sidewalk until a plan for repair was developed by the city. The Department of Forestry never got in touch with the Bilellos and plaintiff tripped and fell over the defect 11 months after the Bilellos' last communication from the city:

Here, it is undisputed that the City did not owe a direct duty of care to the plaintiff, because the 2003 enactment of Administrative Code of City New York 7-210 shifted liability for injuries arising from sidewalk defects from the City to the abutting property owner … . However, if the City owed an independent, special duty to the Bilellos, it may be held liable “for the portion of the damage attributable to [its] negligence, despite the fact that the duty violated was not one owing directly to the injured person” … . “Such a duty is found when a special relationship exists between the municipality and an individual or class of persons warranting the imposition of a duty to use reasonable care for those persons' benefit” … . To establish the existence of a special relationship based on a municipality's voluntary assumption of a duty, the party asserting the relationship has a heavy burden to prove the following elements: (1) an assumption by the municipality, through promises or actions, of an affirmative duty to act on behalf of the party; (2) knowledge on the part of the municipality's agents that inaction could lead to harm; (3) some form of direct contact between the municipality's agents and the party; and (4) the party's justifiable reliance on the municipality's affirmative undertaking … . Stanciu v Bilello, 2016 NY Slip Op 02802, 2nd Dept 4-13-16


April 13, 2016
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