Martinez v ST-DIL LLC
2021 NY Slip Op 06549 [199 AD3d 577]
November 23, 2021
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, December 29, 2021


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 Victor Martinez, Plaintiff,
v
ST-DIL LLC et al., Appellants. The Liberty Blue Group LLC, Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v EM Windsor Construction Company, Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Respondent/Second Third-Party Defendant-Respondent. ST-DIL LLC, Second Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant.

Baxter Smith & Shapiro, P.C., Hicksville (Sim R. Shapiro of counsel), for appellants.

Devitt Spellman & Barrett, LLP, Smithtown (Christi M. Kunzig of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Wilma Guzman, J.), entered September 15, 2020, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied defendants' motion for summary judgment on their contractual indemnification and breach of contract claims against third-party and second third-party defendant EM Windsor Construction Company, Inc., unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Summary judgment in favor of defendants, the construction project owner and general contractor, on their claim for contractual indemnification against subcontractor EM Windsor is precluded by issues of fact as to whether they supervised and controlled the method and means of plaintiff's work and were solely responsible for plaintiff's accident (see Cackett v Gladden Props., LLC, 183 AD3d 419, 422 [1st Dept 2020]; Nenadovic v P.T. Tenants Corp., 94 AD3d 534, 535 [1st Dept 2012]).

Defendants failed to establish prima facie that EM Windsor failed to procure insurance on their behalf and thus are not entitled to summary judgment on their claim for breach of contract, regardless of the sufficiency of EM Windsor's opposition (see Komonaj v Curanovic, 90 AD3d 505 [1st Dept 2011]). Concur—Kern, J.P., Gesmer, González, Shulman, Higgitt, JJ.