New York Court of Appeals Roundup: Court of Appeals Confirms That Standard Negligence Principles Apply to Premises Liability Cases
06.20.23
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In their column in the New York Law Journal, Litigation Partners Bill Russell and Linton Mann III explain how the Court of Appeals, in a recent decision, affirmed that standard negligence principles apply in premises liability cases and that landlords will not automatically escape liability for an assault that takes place on their premises just because it was a targeted, premeditated attack rather than a random act of violence. They discuss Scurry v. New York City Housing Authority and Estate of Murphy v. New York City Housing Authority, in which the Court ruled that intentional attacks on the respective decedents were not an independent intervening cause that broke the proximate causal nexus between the New York City Housing Authority’s alleged negligence in failing to adequately safeguard the premises and the decedents’ deaths.
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