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IN A SLIP AND FALL CASE, EVIDENCE OF GENERAL CLEANING AND INSPECTION PRACTICES DOES NOT PROVE A LACK OF CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE OF THE CONDITION; DEFENDANT MUST PROVE THE AREA WAS CLEANED OR INSPECTED CLOSE IN TIME TO THE FALL (SECOND DEPT). ​

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the defendant City of New York did not demonstrate when the area where plaintiff slipped and fell was last cleaned or inspected. Therefore the city did not demonstrate a lack of constructive notice of the dangerous condition:

… [T]he defendants failed to establish … that they did not have constructive notice of the alleged hazardous snow and ice condition that caused the plaintiff to fall. The evidence submitted by the defendants in support of their motion did not show when the staircase was last cleaned or inspected in relation to when the subject accident occurred, but rather merely described their general cleaning and inspection practices for the staircase … . Islam v City of New York, 2023 NY Slip Op 03685. Second Dept 7-5-23

Practice Point: Once again an appellate court reiterates that proof of general cleaning or inspection practices does not prove a lack of constructive notice of the condition which caused a slip and fall.

 

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