Question Exists About Agent's Special Employer Status

A substantial issue of fact exists about whether a building management agent was an injured worker's special employer, a New York court ruled.The 1st Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court reversed a lower court's summary judgment in favor of the agent in Bautista v. David Frankel Realty, Inc., No. 3185 112421/04, 9/2/08.William Bautista was working as a porter at a building owned by the 55 East 66th Street Corp., when he fell from a ladder while painting a staircase. He filed a Labor Law action against the managing agent of the building, David Frankel Realty.The action inclu...