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NEW YORK TRANSIT AUTHORITY WAS NOT ENTITLED TO DISMISSAL OF THE LABOR LAW 200 AND COMMON LAW NEGLIGENCE CAUSES OF ACTION ON COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL, GOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY OR FACTUAL GROUNDS, RELEVANT LAW SUCCINCTLY EXPLAINED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, modifying Supreme Court, determined that the defendant New York State Transit Authority (NYSTA) was not entitled to dismissal of the Labor Law 200 and common law negligence claims on collateral estoppel, governmental immunity, or factual grounds. The decision includes good explanations of all the legal principles involved. Claimants lost summary judgment motions in a lawsuit against other defendants in state court, and then brought this action against the NYSTA in the Court of Claims. The Second Department held that the standards for liability of the NYSTA as the owner of the construction site were not the same as the standards of liability for the defendants in the state action. Therefore the collateral estoppel doctrine did not apply. The court also held that the NYSTA was acting in a proprietary, not a governmental, capacity. Therefore governmental immunity was not invoked:

Regarding whether NYSTA had the authority to exercise supervision or control over the performance of the claimants’ work, we find that it met its prima facie burden of demonstrating that it had no such authority … . In opposition, however, the claimants raised a triable issue of fact regarding NYSTA’s involvement at the work site … . Regarding the alleged dangerous condition of the work site itself, NYSTA, in support of its motion, argued only that it could not be held liable for failing to remediate soil containing chemicals because the claimants’ job was to remedy that very condition. We find that NYSTA failed to demonstrate, prima facie, that the claimants were injured from defective or hazardous conditions that were part of or inherent in the work they were performing… , or from conditions that were readily observable… . In addition, the claimants raised a triable issue of fact as to whether their injuries were caused by a hazardous condition that they were not specifically hired to remediate … . Indeed, whether a dangerous condition is within the scope of the work an employee or contractor is hired to perform is a fact-specific inquiry … . Grasso v New York State Thruway Auth., 2018 NY Slip Op 01453, Second Dept 3-7-18

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