Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1994

Devorin v. One Wall Street Corp.

Devorin v. One Wall Street Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided December 6, 1994
210 A.D.2d 37; 620 N.Y.S.2d 940; 1994 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 12368
Devorin v. One Wall Street Corp.

Opinion of the Court

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Stephen Crane, J.), entered on or about January 6, 1993, which granted plaintiffs’ motion to strike defendant’s second affirmative defense and denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In this personal injury action, plaintiffs moved to strike the affirmative defense of Workers’ Compensation, and defendant *38cross-moved to dismiss the action as barred by Workers’ Compensation Law § 11. Since defendant, the owner of the building where plaintiff was employed and where the alleged injuries occurred, did not present evidence in admissible form sufficient to prove as a matter of law that it functioned as the alter ego of plaintiff’s employer, the IAS Court properly found that plaintiffs’ claims were not barred by the Workers’ Compensation Law (see, Billy v Consolidated Mach. Tool Corp., 51 NY2d 152, 163). Concur—Murphy, P. J., Sullivan, Kupferman, Asch and Tom, JJ.

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