Plumber Gets Summary Judgment on Claim for Fall

A New York appellate court ruled that a plumber should have been granted summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for falling while trying to access a store’s water heater. Case: Eherts v. Shoprite Supermarkets Inc., No. 532289, 11/24/2021, published. Facts: On Jan. 1, 2018, Douglas Eherts was called to a Shoprite Supermarket in Sullivan County to determine the cause of the store's water pressure problem. Eherts was a plumber, and his employer was under contract with Shoprite to provide plumbing services. Eherts suspected that there was a municipal water main break beneath th...