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NEGLIGENCE CAUSES OF ACTION AGAINST THE DISTRIBUTOR AND RETAIL SELLER OF A SULFURIC ACID DRAIN OPENER, AND THE NEGLIGENT DISCHARGE OF A CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION CAUSE OF ACTION AGAINST THE DISTRIBUTOR, SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, reversing (modifying) Supreme Court determined negligence causes of action against the distributor (Durst) and (Canje) retailer of a sulfuric acid drain opener, and a negligent discharge of a contractual obligation (launching an instrument of harm) cause of action against the distributor should not have been dismissed:

Because defendant Canje, the retail outlet at which the product was purchased, never agreed to abide by the sale policy of the manufacturer, third-party defendant Hercules Chemical Company, Inc., to restrict the sale of the product to plumbing and/or building professionals, it cannot be held liable for launching a force of harm in negligent discharge of a contractual obligation (see generally Espinal v Melville Snow Contrs., 98 NY2d 136, 140 [2002]). However, issues of fact exist whether defendant Durst, the distributor that sold the product to Canje, had a contractual duty to refrain from selling the product to Canje and whether Durst breached this duty and its acknowledged contractual undertakings to take appropriate steps to assure the proper sale and use of the product and to comply with the Seller’s Notice prohibiting sales to non-professionals and the display of the product where it was easily accessible. Durst argues that even if it breached such a duty it did not launch a force or instrument of harm. However, … [t]his case, in which there is evidence that Durst created the unsafe condition by supplying the product without proper safeguards, is … akin to Landon v Kroll Lab. Specialists, Inc. (22 NY3d 1 [2013]), in which the Court of Appeals found that the allegation that the defendant’s negligent testing procedures subjected the plaintiff to legal proceedings stated a cause of action based on the launch of a force of harm. Janiya W.-G. v Smith, 2018 NY Slip Op 02557, First Dept 4-12-18

​NEGLIGENCE (NEGLIGENCE CAUSES OF ACTION AGAINST THE DISTRIBUTOR AND RETAIL SELLER OF A SULFURIC ACID DRAIN OPENER, AND THE NEGLIGENT DISCHARGE OF A CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION CAUSE OF ACTION AGAINST THE DISTRIBUTOR SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED (FIRST DEPT))/CONTRACT LAW (NEGLIGENT DISCHARGE OF A CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION, NEGLIGENCE CAUSES OF ACTION AGAINST THE DISTRIBUTOR AND RETAIL SELLER OF A SULFURIC ACID DRAIN OPENER, AND THE NEGLIGENT DISCHARGE OF A CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION CAUSE OF ACTION AGAINST THE DISTRIBUTOR SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED (FIRST DEPT))/ESPINAL (NEGLIGENT DISCHARGE OF A CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION, LAUNCH OF IN INSTRUMENT OF HARM, NEGLIGENCE CAUSES OF ACTION AGAINST THE DISTRIBUTOR AND RETAIL SELLER OF A SULFURIC ACID DRAIN OPENER, AND THE NEGLIGENT DISCHARGE OF A CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION CAUSE OF ACTION AGAINST THE DISTRIBUTOR SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED (FIRST DEPT))/INSTRUMENT OF HARM, LAUNCH OF (NEGLIGENT DISCHARGE OF A CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION, ESPINAL, NEGLIGENCE CAUSES OF ACTION AGAINST THE DISTRIBUTOR AND RETAIL SELLER OF A SULFURIC ACID DRAIN OPENER, AND THE NEGLIGENT DISCHARGE OF A CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION CAUSE OF ACTION AGAINST THE DISTRIBUTOR SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED (FIRST DEPT))

April 12, 2018
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