Opinion
March 15, 1999
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Rudolph, J.).
Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, the branch of the motion of the third-party defendant which was to dismiss the third-party complaint is denied, and the third-party complaint is reinstated.
The Supreme Court erred in concluding that Workers' Compensation Law § 11, as amended (L 1996, ch 635, § 2), was applicable to the circumstances presented here. That amendment is to be applied prospectively to actions by employees commenced after the effective date of the amendment. While the third-party action here was commenced after the effective date of the amendment, since the main action was .commenced, inter alia, by the employee prior to the effective date, the amendment does not apply ( see, Majewski v. Broadalbin-Perth Cent. School Dist., 91 N.Y.2d 577, 590; Maher v. Whitehead, 254 A.D.2d 263).
S. Miller, J. P., Sullivan, Friedmann and Luciano, JJ., concur.