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OWNER OF PROPERTY WHERE THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL WAS NOT AN ADDITIONAL INSURED UNDER THE EMPLOYER’S POLICY, EMPLOYER FURNISHED THE CONDITION FOR THE SLIP AND FALL BUT DID NOT PROXIMATELY CAUSE THE SLIP AND FALL (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined that Pioneer Middle School was not an additional insured under the policy which insured of the employer (Kleanerz) of Ayers, who slipped and fell on ice and snow in the Pioneer Middle School parking law:

We conclude that Pioneer is not an additional insured under the policy inasmuch as Ayers's injuries were not proximately caused by Kleanerz. The policy's additional insured endorsement provides that the injury must have been “caused, in whole or in part, by” Kleanerz's conduct, and thus it requires that the insured must have been a proximate cause of the injury, not merely a “but for” cause … . Here, it is undisputed that Kleanerz was not responsible for clearing ice and snow from the parking lot and that Ayers's fall resulted from her slipping on the ice or snow. Although Pioneer contends that Kleanerz caused the accident by instructing Ayers to exit Pioneer Middle School through a door located near the area where Ayers subsequently slipped, Kleanerz's instructions to Ayers “merely furnished the occasion for the injury” by “fortuitously plac[ing Ayers] in a location or position in which . . . [an alleged] separate instance of negligence acted independently upon [her] to produce harm” … , and were not a cause of the accident triggering the additional insured clause of the policy. Pioneer Cent. Sch. Dist. v Preferred Mut. Ins. Co., 2018 NY Slip Op 06682, Fourth Dept 10-5-18

INSURANCE LAW (OWNER OF PROPERTY WHERE THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL WAS NOT AN ADDITIONAL INSURED UNDER THE EMPLOYER'S POLICY, EMPLOYER FURNISHED THE CONDITION FOR THE SLIP AND FALL BUT DID NOT PROXIMATELY CAUSE THE SLIP AND FALL (FOURTH DEPT))/CONTRACT LAW (INSURANCE LAW, OWNER OF PROPERTY WHERE THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL WAS NOT AN ADDITIONAL INSURED UNDER THE EMPLOYER'S POLICY, EMPLOYER FURNISHED THE CONDITION FOR THE SLIP AND FALL BUT DID NOT PROXIMATELY CAUSE THE SLIP AND FALL (FOURTH DEPT))/ADDITIONAL INSURED (INSURANCE LAW, OWNER OF PROPERTY WHERE THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL WAS NOT AN ADDITIONAL INSURED UNDER THE EMPLOYER'S POLICY, EMPLOYER FURNISHED THE CONDITION FOR THE SLIP AND FALL BUT DID NOT PROXIMATELY CAUSE THE SLIP AND FALL (FOURTH DEPT))

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