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TENANT WAS INJURED TRYING TO MOVE A HEAVY RADIATOR THAT HAD BEEN LEFT OUTSIDE HIS APARTMENT FOR MONTHS, DEFENDANT LANDLORD’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT CLAIMING PLAINTIFF’S CONDUCT WAS THE SOLE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT WAS PROPERLY DENIED (SECOND DEPT)

The Second Department determined defendant landlord’s motion for summary judgment in this negligence action by a tenant was properly denied. Plaintiff was injured attempting to move a heavy radiator that was in the common area outside his apartment. Plaintiff’s family members had complained that the radiator obstructed the path from the apartment to the staircase, but the radiator had remained there for months:

… [T]he defendant landlord moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against it, contending that the plaintiff’s conduct was the sole proximate cause of the accident. …

The defendant landlord failed to establish, prima facie, that it was not foreseeable that the plaintiff would attempt to move the heavy radiator and that the plaintiff’s conduct constituted a superseding and intervening act which severed any nexus between the defendant landlord’s alleged negligence and the plaintiff’s injuries … . Munoz v Kiryat Stockholm, LLC, 2018 NY Slip Op 04552, Second Dept 6-20-18

​NEGLIGENCE (TENANT WAS INJURED TRYING TO MOVE A HEAVY RADIATOR THAT HAD BEEN LEFT OUTSIDE HIS APARTMENT FOR MONTHS, DEFENDANT LANDLORD’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT CLAIMING PLAINTIFF’S CONDUCT WAS THE SOLE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT WAS PROPERLY DENIED (SECOND DEPT))/SOLE PROXIMATE CAUSE (TENANT WAS INJURED TRYING TO MOVE A HEAVY RADIATOR THAT HAD BEEN LEFT OUTSIDE HIS APARTMENT FOR MONTHS, DEFENDANT LANDLORD’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT CLAIMING PLAINTIFF’S CONDUCT WAS THE SOLE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT WAS PROPERLY DENIED (SECOND DEPT))/SUPERSEDING CAUSE (TENANT WAS INJURED TRYING TO MOVE A HEAVY RADIATOR THAT HAD BEEN LEFT OUTSIDE HIS APARTMENT FOR MONTHS, DEFENDANT LANDLORD’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT CLAIMING PLAINTIFF’S CONDUCT WAS THE SOLE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT WAS PROPERLY DENIED (SECOND DEPT))/LANDLORD-TENANT (NEGLIGENCE, TENANT WAS INJURED TRYING TO MOVE A HEAVY RADIATOR THAT HAD BEEN LEFT OUTSIDE HIS APARTMENT FOR MONTHS, DEFENDANT LANDLORD’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT CLAIMING PLAINTIFF’S CONDUCT WAS THE SOLE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT WAS PROPERLY DENIED (SECOND DEPT))/FORESEEABILITY (TENANT WAS INJURED TRYING TO MOVE A HEAVY RADIATOR THAT HAD BEEN LEFT OUTSIDE HIS APARTMENT FOR MONTHS, DEFENDANT LANDLORD’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT CLAIMING PLAINTIFF’S CONDUCT WAS THE SOLE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT WAS PROPERLY DENIED (SECOND DEPT))

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