MEYER v. MORENO


258 A.D.2d 315 (1999)

684 N.Y.S.2d 773

ROBERT MEYER, Respondent, v. MIKE A. MORENO et al., Appellants.

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

Decided February 11, 1999.


The so-called "firefighter's rule," codified in General Municipal Law § 205-a, precludes recovery against a property owner for injury due to common-law negligence arising out of the very risk that draws the safety officer to the scene (Zanghi v Niagara Frontier Transp. Commn., 85 N.Y.2d 423). By the same token, the statute affords protection to the firefighter injured as a result...

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