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CONDUCT OF THE BUFFALO BILLS OR THE COUNTY OF ERIE AS THE OWNER OF THE FOOTBALL STADIUM WAS NOT THE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF AN UNPROVOKED CRIMINAL ASSAULT ON THE PLAINTIFF AT THE STADIUM, NEGLIGENCE ACTION PROPERLY DISMISSED (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department determined the action against the Buffalo Bills and the County of Erie, the owner of the football stadium where the Bills played, based upon an unprovoked attack on the plaintiff at the stadium, was properly dismissed:

Contrary to plaintiff’s contention, the court properly determined that the conduct of the Bills and the County was not a proximate cause of his injuries. “[A]s an independent act far removed from [the allegedly negligent] conduct [of the Bills and the County], the [assailants’ unprovoked] criminal assault broke the causal nexus [between such allegedly negligent conduct and plaintiff’s injury]. The attack was extraordinary and not foreseeable or preventable in the normal course of events” … . Indeed, “[i]t is difficult to understand what measures could have been undertaken to prevent plaintiff’s injury except presumably to have had a security officer posted at the precise location where the incident took place or wherever [rival football fans] were gathered, surely an unreasonable burden” … . We thus conclude that the court properly granted the motion of the Bills and the County and dismissed the amended complaint against them. Wrobel v Doe, 2018 NY Slip Op 05097, Fourth Dept 7-6-18

​NEGLIGENCE (THIRD PARTY ASSAULT, CONDUCT OF THE BUFFALO BILLS OR THE COUNTY OF ERIE AS THE OWNER OF THE FOOTBALL STADIUM WAS NOT THE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF AN UNPROVOKED CRIMINAL ASSAULT ON THE PLAINTIFF AT THE STADIUM, NEGLIGENCE ACTION PROPERLY DISMISSED (FOURTH DEPT))/ASSAULT (NEGLIGENCE, THIRD PARTY ASSAULT, CONDUCT OF THE BUFFALO BILLS OR THE COUNTY OF ERIE AS THE OWNER OF THE FOOTBALL STADIUM WAS NOT THE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF AN UNPROVOKED CRIMINAL ASSAULT ON THE PLAINTIFF AT THE STADIUM, NEGLIGENCE ACTION PROPERLY DISMISSED (FOURTH DEPT))/THIRD PARTY ASSAULT (NEGLIGENCE, CONDUCT OF THE BUFFALO BILLS OR THE COUNTY OF ERIE AS THE OWNER OF THE FOOTBALL STADIUM WAS NOT THE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF AN UNPROVOKED CRIMINAL ASSAULT ON THE PLAINTIFF AT THE STADIUM, NEGLIGENCE ACTION PROPERLY DISMISSED (FOURTH DEPT))

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