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SANCTIONS FOR SPOLIATION OF VIDEOTAPE IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN IMPOSED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendant store (Fairway) should not have been sanctioned (adverse inference jury instruction) for spoliation of evidence, i.e., videotape depicting areas outside the store. Plaintiff slipped and fell on ice in an area near the entrance to the store. The videotape from the camera which captured the fall was provided to plaintiff. The videotape from the other cameras depicting other areas outside the store was not preserved:

The plaintiff’s January 3, 2013, letter specifically requested that Fairway preserve “any and all video footage depicting the location of my client’s accident.” Ten hours of video footage depicting the exact location of the accident before the fall occurred, including footage of the accident itself, were preserved by Fairway and subsequently disclosed to the plaintiff. The plaintiff did not initially request that video footage of other locations also be preserved, so Fairway was not on notice that such footage might be needed for future litigation … . In addition, the plaintiff has not established that the absence of such footage deprived her of the ability to prove her case … . Under these circumstances, the plaintiff did not establish that sanctions against Fairway were warranted … . Sarris v Fairway Group Plainview, LLC, 2019 NY Slip Op 00922, Second Dept 2-5-19

 

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