CHAVEZ v. PRANA HOLDING CO. LLC

Index No. 300061/15E. Appeal No. 14799. Case No. 2020-04449.

200 A.D.3d 449 (2021)

155 N.Y.S.3d 66

2021 NY Slip Op 06795

Jessica Chavez, Respondent, v. Prana Holding Company LLC et al., Appellants.

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

Decided December 7, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cascone & Kluepfel, LLP, Garden City ( Beth L. Rogoff-Gribbins of counsel), for appellants.

The Altman Law Firm, PLLC, Woodmere ( Michael T. Altman of counsel), for respondent.

Concur—Acosta, P.J., Gische, Webber, Friedman, Kennedy, JJ.


Plaintiff established prima facie that defendants were negligent in connection with her slip and fall on an interior staircase of their building by submitting circumstantial evidence as to the accident "from which the negligence of the defendant[s] and the causation of the accident by that negligence could be reasonably inferred" (Schneider v Kings Hwy. Hosp. Ctr., 67 N.Y.2d 743, 744 [1986] [internal quotation marks omitted]). Plaintiff...

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