Staats v Wegmans Food Mkts., Inc.
2008 NY Slip Op 00761 [48 AD3d 1060]
February 1, 2008
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, April 16, 2008


John W. Staats, Plaintiff, v Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. Solvay Iron Works, Inc., Third-Party Defendant, and Rochester Rigging & Erectors, Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Appellant. (Appeal No. 2.)

—[*1] Chelus, Herdzik, Speyer & Monte, P.C., Buffalo (Barry T. Bassis of counsel), for third-party defendant-appellant.

Rupp, Baase, Pfalzgraf, Cunningham & Coppola LLC, Rochester (Matthew A. Lenhard of counsel), for third-party plaintiff-respondent.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Niagara County (Richard C. Kloch, Sr., A.J.), entered October 9, 2006 in a personal injury action. The order granted the motion of defendant-third-party plaintiff for summary judgment on its claim for contractual indemnification against third-party defendant Rochester Rigging & Erectors, Inc.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs. Present—Scudder, P.J., Martoche, Centra, Fahey and Gorski, JJ.