PALMENTA v. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY


266 A.D.2d 90 (1999)

698 N.Y.S.2d 657

JAMES PALMENTA, Plaintiff, v. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY et al., Defendants. (And a Third-Party Action.) TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Second Third-Party Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. SUNSET CITY, Second Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided November 18, 1999.


The underlying personal injury action was commenced against defendant Columbia University, the owner of the construction site, in December 1995 in connection with the plaintiff's injuries caused by falling concrete. Columbia commenced a third-party action against plaintiff's employer, Burgess Steel Products Corp. and, in May 1997, a second third-party action against Sunset, which allegedly performed demolition work at the site. Counsel engaged by Sunset's insurer served its...

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