LOUGHLIN v. CITY OF NEW YORK


33 A.D.3d 399 (2006)

823 N.Y.S.2d 122

BRIAN LOUGHLIN et al., Appellants, v. CITY OF NEW YORK, Respondent.

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

Decided October 10, 2006.


Plaintiffs, police officers who were on restricted duty due to line-of-duty injuries and assigned to a criminal part, were injured during scuffles with violent prisoners. They allege that defendant City was negligent in assigning them to a dangerous duty involving prisoner contact that they were deemed medically unfit to perform, and argue that the firefighter's rule (see Zanghi v Niagara Frontier Transp. Commn., 85 N.Y.2d 423, 438...

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