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DEFENDANT WHICH BUILT THE SWIMMING POOL, DEFENDANT WHICH INSTALLED THE POOL LINER, AND DEFENDANT OWNERS OF THE POOL, WERE NOT ENTITLED TO SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS SWIMMING POOL INJURY CASE, PLAINTIFF WAS INJURED WHEN HE DOVE IN AND STRUCK HIS CHIN IN A SHALLOW AREA (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department determined defendants' motions for summary judgment in this swimming pool injury case was properly denied. Plaintiff was injured when he dove into the pool allegedly unaware of a shallow area near the deep area. The builder of the pool and the installer of the pool liner (the Bertolino defendants), as well as the owners of the pool (the Olsen defendants), were sued.  The Bertolino defendants could be liable based upon their contracts with the owners because it was alleged the pool was negligently designed and constructed by them. There also was a question of fact whether the condition was readily observable (raising the duty to protect or warn on the part of the owners):

With respect to the Bertolino defendants, generally, a contractual obligation of a third party does not give rise to liability in tort to persons not a party to the contract… . An exception exists, however, where the contractor created a dangerous condition or increased the risk of harm to others in its undertaking … . Here, the plaintiff's allegation that the Bertolino defendants negligently designed and constructed the subject pool by incorporating the allegedly dangerous condition falls within this exception … . Moreover, the Bertolino defendants failed to establish, prima facie, that the alleged condition was not dangerous or that it did not unreasonably increase the risk of harm to those diving off the side of the pool, even though, as their expert opined, it was located outside the “diving water envelope,” which the expert described as the “area without constructed intrusions” … . …

As to the Olsen defendants, “[t]he owner of a private residential swimming pool has a duty to maintain the pool in a reasonably safe condition in view of all the circumstances, including the likelihood of injury to others, the seriousness of the injury and the burden of avoiding the risk” … . “What accidents are reasonably foreseeable, and what preventive measures should reasonably be taken, are ordinarily questions of fact” … . However, there is no duty to protect or warn of conditions that are not inherently dangerous and that are readily observable by the reasonable use of one's senses … . Here, the Olsen defendants, who did not deny notice of the allegedly dangerous condition, failed to establish, prima facie, that the condition at issue was not inherently dangerous and that it was readily observable by the reasonable use of one's senses … . Grosse v Olsen, 2018 NY Slip Op 05829. second Dept 8-22-18

NEGLIGENCE (SWIMMING POOL, DEFENDANT WHICH BUILT THE SWIMMING POOL, DEFENDANT WHICH INSTALLED THE POOL LINER, AND DEFENDANT OWNERS OF THE POOL, WERE NOT ENTITLED TO SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS SWIMMING POOL INJURY CASE, PLAINTIFF WAS INJURED WHEN HE DOVE IN AND STRUCK HIS CHIN IN A SHALLOW AREA (SECOND DEPT))CONTRACT LAW (TORT LIABILITY TO NON-PARTY, SWIMMING POOL, DEFENDANT WHICH BUILT THE SWIMMING POOL, DEFENDANT WHICH INSTALLED THE POOL LINER, AND DEFENDANT OWNERS OF THE POOL, WERE NOT ENTITLED TO SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS SWIMMING POOL INJURY CASE, PLAINTIFF WAS INJURED WHEN HE DOVE IN AND STRUCK HIS CHIN IN A SHALLOW AREA (SECOND DEPT))/SWIMMING POOLS (NEGLIGENCE, CONTRACT LAW, DEFENDANT WHICH BUILT THE SWIMMING POOL, DEFENDANT WHICH INSTALLED THE POOL LINER, AND DEFENDANT OWNERS OF THE POOL, WERE NOT ENTITLED TO SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS SWIMMING POOL INJURY CASE, PLAINTIFF WAS INJURED WHEN HE DOVE IN AND STRUCK HIS CHIN IN A SHALLOW AREA (SECOND DEPT))

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