A divided New York appellate court ruled that a property owner could not be held liable for a worker's injuries from climbing off a scaffold in an unsafe manner.
Case: Biaca-Neto v. Boston Road II Housing Development Fund Corp., No. 650018/15, 08/13/2019, published.
Facts: The Boston Road II Housing Development Fund Corp. hired the Mountco Construction and Development Corp. as the general contractor for a project. Mountco subcontracted work to Advance Contracting Solutions LLC, which employed Waldemar Biaca-Neto.
On Sept. 3, 2014, Biaca-Neto and Fabio DeSilva assembled&nb...
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