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Sanchez v. Biordi

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Mar 30, 1999
259 A.D.2d 434 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)

Opinion

March 30, 1999

Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Braun, J.).


We agree with the IAS Court that Administrative Code of the City of New York § 27-809 does not apply, since, as plaintiff concedes, such section was enacted after the certificate of occupancy for the building was issued, and plaintiff fails to raise an issue of fact as to whether any of the exceptions to this grandfathering rule apply (see, Administrative Code §§ 27-114 — 27-123).

Nor is there merit to plaintiff's common-law negligence claim because, assuming defendants breached a duty to insulate the heat riser (see, Kellman v. 45 Tiemann Assocs., 87 N.Y.2d 871), such breach was not a proximate cause of plaintiff's injuries. Where the negligence complained of does not cause "the occurrence of the accident from which the injuries flow" (Rivera v. City of New York, 11 N.Y.2d 856, 857), and an intervening act occurs which is not foreseeable in the normal course of events (Derdiarian v. Felix Contr. Corp., 51 N.Y.2d 308, 315), proximate cause is lacking as a matter of law. That a tenant would lean up against a heat riser for almost a half hour as a result of having fainted and lost consciousness was not a foreseeable risk of defendants' alleged negligence (see, Rivera v. City of New York, 11 N.Y.2d 856, supra; cf., Derdiarian v. Felix Contr. Corp., 51 N.Y.2d 308, 315-316, supra).

Concur — Tom, J. P., Mazzarelli, Andrias and Saxe, JJ.


Summaries of

Sanchez v. Biordi

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Mar 30, 1999
259 A.D.2d 434 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)
Case details for

Sanchez v. Biordi

Case Details

Full title:SYLVIA SANCHEZ, Appellant, v. NELLO BIORDI et al., Respondents

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Mar 30, 1999

Citations

259 A.D.2d 434 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)
687 N.Y.S.2d 338

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