Badalamenti v City of New York
2008 NY Slip Op 03399 [50 AD3d 477]
April 17, 2008
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, June 18, 2008


Vincenzo Badalamenti et al., Appellants,
v
City of New York et al., Respondents.

[*1] Talisman & DeLorenz, P.C., Brooklyn (Paul F. McAloon of counsel), for appellants.

Ahmuty, Demers & McManus, Albertson (Brendan T. Fitzpatrick of counsel), for City of New York and New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, respondents.

London Fischer LLP, New York (Brian A. Kalman of counsel), for G.A.L. Manufacturing Corporation, respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Paul A. Victor, J.), entered February 2, 2007, which, insofar as appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied that part of plaintiffs' motion to produce discovery arising from a similar accident involving identical defendants, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the motion granted and defendants directed to produce all reports relating to the Neary litigation.

The motion court erred in denying plaintiffs' request for the production of reports arising out of and relating to the Neary case, where the pit-stop switch for the building's elevators involved in both the subject accident and in the accident involving Neary are identical devices manufactured by defendant G.A.L. Manufacturing Corp. (see McKeon v Sears Roebuck & Co., 190 AD2d 577 [1993]).

We have considered defendants' remaining arguments and find them unavailing. Concur—Andrias, J.P., Friedman, Buckley, Catterson and Acosta, JJ.