Defendants defeat N.Y. lawsuit over woman trapped in elevator doors
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A New York appellate court granted the motions of a property owner, management company and consultant to dismiss a complaint, and all cross claims against them, stemming from an alleged elevator injury at a Fifth Avenue property in 2012. In its Dec. 8 ruling, the Supreme Court's Appellate Division, First Judicial Department reversed a 2019 decision by the Bronx Supreme Court that the defendants were “collectively in control” of the elevator where the injury allegedly occurred and that John A. Van Deusen & Associates (VDA), the consultant, “had the authority t...
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