Court Overturns Summary Judgment for Worker on Claim Against University

A New York appellate court overturned a grant of summary judgment in favor of a construction worker on her Labor Law claim based on an alleged fall from a scaffold on a property owned by Columbia University. Case: Nieves v. Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, No. 5649, 02/08/2018, published. Facts: Ruby Nieves filed a Labor Law claim against the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, asserting that she had suffered injuries from a fall while building a wall on a property owned by the university. Nieves testified that she had fallen from a sca...