Court Tosses Summary Judgment for Worker Over Questions of Credibility

A New York appellate court overturned a worker’s grant of summary judgment on a Labor Law claim, finding the conflicting accounts of his alleged accident had given rise to a triable question about his credibility. Case: Medrano v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, No. 4687 153442/14, 10/17/2017, published. Facts: Felix Medrano allegedly fell from an unsecured ladder while applying fireproofing material to a ceiling beam on a property owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Medrano claimed that his assistant foreman had provided him with the ladder, which was d...