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FAILURE TO PRESERVE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO WHICH ALLEGEDLY SHOWED HOW PLAINTIFF WAS INJURED WARRANTED A SANCTION, EVEN THOUGH PLAINTIFF DID NOT DEMAND THE TAPE OR ASK THAT IT BE PRESERVED.

The Second Department determined defendants should have been sanctioned for not preserving a videotape which allegedly showed plaintiff deliberately allowing a car to run over her toes. Plaintiff had not asked that the videotape be preserved. The Second Department determined the appropriate sanction is to prohibit the defendants from introducing any evidence of the contents of the tape. The Second Department further held that plaintiff was not entitled to summary judgment because her conclusory affidavit was not sufficient to demonstrate the absence of comparative fault:

Here, the Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in failing to impose any sanction. The plaintiff sustained her burden of establishing that spoliation occurred, given that the defendants failed to preserve the surveillance video despite their knowledge of a reasonable likelihood of litigation regarding the incident, and the highly relevant nature of the video evidence to that litigation … . However, since the destruction of the evidence did not deprive the plaintiff of her ability to prove her claim so as to warrant the drastic sanction of striking the defendants’ answer, the appropriate sanction for the spoliation herein is to preclude the defendants from offering any evidence in this action regarding the alleged contents of the erased surveillance video … . Rokach v Taback, 2017 NY Slip Op 02456, 2nd Dept 3-29-17

 

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