LETTERESE v. STATE OF NEW YORK


33 A.D.3d 593 (2006)

821 N.Y.S.2d 468

THERESA LETTERESE, Appellant, v. STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent.

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

Decided October 3, 2006.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

The claimant, then an inmate at the Beacon Correctional Facility, allegedly was injured while assigned to a work crew that was painting a Department of Transportation garage in Poughkeepsie. Just prior to the accident, the plaintiff was attempting to paint the upper portion of an 18- or 20-foot wall while standing on the top cap of an unsecured 10-foot high stepladder. She sustained injuries when the ladder toppled...

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