On March 5, 1986, the then eighty-year-old plaintiff, Sylvia Katz, slipped and fell on the marble floor of defendant hospital's lobby. In denying the hospital's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, the IAS court found that the condition of the floor was in question as well as the issue of proximate cause. However, in opposition to defendant's motion, plaintiff merely alleged that she slipped on "highly waxed and polished marble flooring" and claimed that...
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