CAMARA v. COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP.

152399/17. Appeal No. 14646. Case No. 2020-02715.

199 A.D.3d 509 (2021)

154 N.Y.S.3d 435

2021 NY Slip Op 06435

Astan Camara, Respondent, v. Costco Wholesale Corporation et al., Appellants.

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

Decided November 18, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Connors & Connors, P.C., Staten Island ( Robert J. Pfuhler of counsel), for Costco Wholesale Corporation, appellant.

Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP, Hawthorne ( Angela Dee Williams of counsel), for Tiago Holdings, LLC, appellant.

Jaroslawicz & Jaros PLLC, New York ( David Tolchin of counsel), for respondent.

Concur—Kapnick, J.P., Webber, Oing, Rodriguez, JJ.


Plaintiff Astan Camara alleges that on January 8, 2017 she was injured when she tripped and fell on a cracked and defective floor inside a Costco warehouse located at 517 E. 117th Street in Manhattan. Specifically, she contends that defendants were negligent in failing to properly maintain the floor, and that they created or permitted a hazardous or trap-like condition to exist as the floor had "an uneven surface." Defendants argued, in essence, that the condition constituted...

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