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A Slip and Fall Defendant Who Moves for Summary Judgment Must Demonstrate When the Area Where the Fall Occurred Was Last Inspected or Cleaned

The Second Department determined summary judgment should not have been granted to the defendant in a slip and fall case.  The defendant, who moved for summary judgment, failed to demonstrate when the wet area where plaintiff fell was last cleaned or inspected and thereby failed to make a prima facie showing of a lack of constructive notice of the condition:

In a slip-and-fall case, a defendant property owner who moves for summary judgment has the initial burden of making a prima facie showing that it neither created the hazardous condition nor had actual or constructive notice of its existence … . While the defendant met her initial burden of making a prima facie showing that she did not create the condition and lacked actual notice of the wet spot, “[t]o meet its initial burden on the issue of lack of constructive notice, the defendant must offer some evidence as to when the area in question was last cleaned or inspected relative to the time when the plaintiff fell” … . Here, the defendant introduced no evidence as to when she had last cleaned or inspected the staircase relative to the time the plaintiff fell. She did not know when she last inspected the property before the subject accident …  Thus, the defendant did not establish, prima facie, that she lacked constructive notice of the alleged wet condition in the stairway … . Lamour v Decimus, 2014 NY Slip Op 04466, 2nd Dept 6-18-14

 

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