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Putrino v. Buffalo Athletic Club

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Oct 14, 1993
82 N.Y.2d 779 (N.Y. 1993)

Opinion

Decided October 14, 1993

Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Fourth Judicial Department, Edward A. Rath, J.

Weissfeld, Weissfeld Weissfeld, Buffalo (Richard Weissfeld of counsel), for appellant. Lustig Brown, Buffalo (John A. Ziegler of counsel), for respondent.


MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs. Plaintiff put forth no evidence that defendant's aerobics classroom is a "place of public assembly" subject to statutory liability under Labor Law § 470. Moreover, even if the entire facility were shown to be a "place of public assembly", the liability imposed is merely a codification of common law and the claim is no more viable than plaintiff's other claims (Rickard v Farmers' Museum, 284 App. Div. 140, 142). With respect to each of her common-law negligence causes of action, plaintiff failed to introduce admissible evidence establishing a triable issue of fact sufficient to preclude summary judgment. At best, plaintiff put forth the opinions of medical and health club experts which are conclusory and, therefore, inadequate to counter a summary judgment motion (Amatulli v Delhi Constr. Corp., 77 N.Y.2d 525, 533-534, n 2). Accordingly, the Appellate Division correctly modified the order of Supreme Court by granting summary judgment dismissing all of plaintiff's claims.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges SIMONS, TITONE, HANCOCK, JR., BELLACOSA, SMITH and LEVINE concur.

On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.4 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals (22 N.Y.CRR 500.4), order affirmed, with costs, in a memorandum.


Summaries of

Putrino v. Buffalo Athletic Club

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Oct 14, 1993
82 N.Y.2d 779 (N.Y. 1993)
Case details for

Putrino v. Buffalo Athletic Club

Case Details

Full title:KATHLEEN L. PUTRINO, as Administratrix of the Estate of CARMIN R. PUTRINO…

Court:Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Oct 14, 1993

Citations

82 N.Y.2d 779 (N.Y. 1993)

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