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OUT OF POSSESSION LANDLORD MAY BE LIABLE IN THIS SIDEWALK SLIP AND FALL CASE PURSUANT TO A 2019 COURT OF APPEALS DECISION; VIOLATION OF NYC ADMINISTRATIVE CODE CAN BE RAISED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OPPOSITION TO SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION; QUESTION OF FACT ABOUT THE APPLICABILITY OF THE STORM IN PROGRESS DOCTRINE (FIRST DEPT). ​

The First Department, reversing Supreme Court in this sidewalk slip and fall case, determined: (1) a 2019 Court of Appeals decision clarified the defendant out-of-possession landlord’s duty to keep sidewalks safe, notwithstanding any maintenance arrangement with a tenant; (2) although the plaintiff was required to allege the defendant violated the NYC Administrative Code and failed to do so, plaintiff could rely on the Code provision in opposition to defendant’s summary judgment motion; and (3) plaintiff raised a question of fact whether the ice condition existed before the alleged storm in progress at or near the time of the fall:

… [T]he court’s determination that defendant was entitled to summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that he is an out-of-possession landlord is no longer sound in light of the Court of Appeals’s decision in Xiang Fu He v Troon Mgt., Inc. (34 NY3d 167 [2019]). …[E]ven if … plaintiff was required to plead defendant’s violation of Administrative Code of City of New York § 7-210 – which he undisputedly failed to do – plaintiff’s reliance thereon for the first time in opposition to defendant’s motion for summary judgment was permissible, given that doing so did not raise any new theory of liability or prejudice … . Herrera v Vargas, 2020 NY Slip Op 03082, First Dept 5-28-20

 

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