BORDELL v. GEN. ELEC. CO.


88 N.Y.2d 869 (1996)

667 N.E.2d 922

644 N.Y.S.2d 912

Frank L. Bordell, Appellant, v. General Electric Company et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 7, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gleason, Dunn, Walsh & O'Shea, Albany (Ronald G. Dunn of counsel), for appellant.

Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman, L. L. P., New York City (Vincent Alfieri, Andrew Irving and Mary Ellen Donnelly of counsel), for respondents.

Wayne N. Outten, New York City, and Anne Golden for National Employment Lawyers Association/New York, amicus curiae.

Joel Shufro, New York City, for New York Committee on Occupational Safety and Health, amicus curiae.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges TITONE, BELLACOSA, SMITH, LEVINE and CIPARICK concur; Judge SIMONS taking no part.


MEMORANDUM.

The judgment appealed from and the order of the Appellate Division brought up for review should be affirmed, with costs.

Plaintiff was employed by General Electric Company as a health physicist at the Knolls Atomic Power Company when he reported to his superiors that, in his opinion, as many as seven employees might have been exposed to radiation levels sufficient to trigger Department of Energy (DOE)...

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