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91ST ST CRANE COLLAPSE LITIG

117469/08, 117294/08, 771000/10.

154 A.D.3d 139 (2017)

2017 NY Slip Op 06419

62 N.Y.S.3d 11

In the Matter of 91ST STREET CRANE COLLAPSE LITIGATION. MARIA LEO, as Administrator of the Estate of DONALD CHRISTOPHER LEO, Deceased, Respondent, v. JAMES F. LOMMA et al., Appellants. BERNADETTE PANZELLA, P.C., Nonparty Intervenor-Respondent. NEW YORK CRANE & EQUIPMENT CORP. et al., Third-Party Plaintiffs-Appellants, et al., Third-Party Plaintiff, v. SORBARA CONSTRUCTION CORP., Third-Party Defendant-Intervenor-Respondent. (And a Second Third-Party Action.) XHEVAHIRE SINANAJ et al., as Coadministrators of the Estate of RAMADAN KURTAJ, Deceased, et al., Respondents, v. JAMES F. LOMMA et al., Appellants. JAMES F. LOMMA et al., Third-Party Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SORBARA CONSTRUCTION CORP., Third-Party Defendant-Intervenor-Respondent, et al., Third-Party Defendant. (And Other Actions.)

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

Decided September 12, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Law Offices of Nathaniel Z. Marmur, PLLC, New York City ( Nathaniel Z. Marmur of counsel), Shapiro Arato LLP, New York City ( Eric Olney of counsel), and Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP, New York City ( Judy C. Selmeci of counsel), for appellants.

Locke Lord LLP, New York City ( R. James De Rose, III and Gregory T. Casamento of counsel), for Maria Leo, respondent.

Bernadette Panzella, P.C., New York City ( Bernadette Panzella of counsel), for Bernadette Panzella, P.C., respondent.

Cartafalsa, Slattery, Turpin & Lenoff, New York City ( Raymond F. Slattery of counsel), and Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C., New York City ( Allan I. Young of counsel), for Sorbara Construction Corp., respondent.

Susan M. Karten & Associates, LLP, New York City ( Susan M. Karten and Craig H. Synder of counsel), and Law Office of Michael G. O'Neill, New York City ( Michael G. O'Neill of counsel), for Xhevahire Sinanaj and Selvi Sinanovic, respondents.

ACOSTA, P.J., FRIEDMAN, ANDRIAS and GESMER, JJ. concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

In these two consolidated wrongful death actions arising out of the catastrophic crane collapse on East 91st Street in Manhattan on May 30, 2008, defendants New York Crane & Equipment Corp. (NY Crane), J.F. Lomma, Inc. (JF Lomma), and James F. Lomma (Lomma) (collectively referred to as defendants) appeal...

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