A New York appellate court ruled that a worker’s Labor Law claim for injuries he sustained while performing routine maintenance should have been dismissed as a matter of law.
Case: Byrnes v. Nursing Sisters of the Sick Poor, No. 2016-11982, 03/13/2019, published.
Facts: Joseph Byrnes allegedly injured his back when he was performing a seasonal startup of a cooling tower on a heating and cooling system at a property owned by the Nursing Sisters of the Sick Poor.
His employer had done the work on a yearly basis for the Sisters for the last decade. It involved installing a circ...
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