Opinion
2022-01387 Index 652171/18 652224/18
03-03-2022
Goyard NY, LLC, Plaintiff, v. Friedland Props., Inc., et al., Defendants-Appellants, United Drilling & Cutting Corp., Defendant, Scalpel Constr., Inc., Defendant-Respondent. DFAWEAST, LLC, Nonparty Plaintiff, v. Friedland Props., Inc., et al., Defendants-Appellants, United Drilling & Cutting Corp., Defendant, Scalpel Constr., Inc., et al., Defendants-Respondents. Appeal No. 15440 No. 2021-03960
Hannum Feretic Prendergast & Merlino, LLC, New York (John E. Hannum of counsel), for appellants. Law Offices of James J. Toomey, New York (Evy L. Kazansky of counsel), for respondents.
Hannum Feretic Prendergast & Merlino, LLC, New York (John E. Hannum of counsel), for appellants.
Law Offices of James J. Toomey, New York (Evy L. Kazansky of counsel), for respondents.
Before: Renwick, J.P., Gesmer, Moulton, Rodriguez, Pitt, JJ.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Melissa A. Crane, J.), entered on or about January 13, 2021, which, to the extent appealed from, denied defendants-appellants' (defendants) motion for summary judgment on their first, second, and third cross claims against defendants Scalpel Construction, Inc., Scalpel Contracting, Inc. (together, Scalpel), and United Drilling & Cutting Corp., unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The court correctly concluded that defendants were not entitled to conditional summary judgment on the cross claims for contractual indemnification against Scalpel, as it has not been determined either that the alleged property damages resulted from Scalpel's performance of the work, or that Scalpel was negligent. Both are required to trigger the indemnification clause (see Delgaudio v Townhouse Co. LLC, 189 A.D.3d 429, 430 [1st Dept 2020]). Defendants also did not establish their entitlement to summary judgment on their common-law indemnification or contribution claims (see Hammer v ACC Constr. Corp., 193 A.D.3d 455, 457 [1st Dept 2021]; Muqattash v Choice One Pharm. Corp., 162 A.D.3d 499, 500-501 [1st Dept 2018]).