Christian v Brookdale Senior Living Communities, Inc. (2025 NYSlipOp 07154)
Christian v Brookdale Senior Living Communities, Inc.
2025 NYSlipOp 07154 [244 AD3d 1782]
December 23, 2025
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, February 4, 2026


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 Glenda S. Christian, Respondent,
v
Brookdale Senior Living Communities, Inc., et al., Appellants, et al., Defendant. Thomas J. Kapinos, Jr., Doing Business as Precision Flooring, Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent, v Michael P. Drozdowski, Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.

Burden & Hansen, LLC, Buffalo (Donna L. Burden of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Chelus Herdzik Speyer & Monte, LLP, Buffalo (Mark A. Forden of counsel), for third-party defendant-appellant.

Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria LLP, Buffalo (Cherie L. Peterson of counsel), for plaintiff-respondent.

Kenney Shelton Liptak Nowak LLP, Buffalo (Nelson E. Schule, Jr., of counsel), for third-party plaintiff-respondent.

Appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Niagara County (Frank Caruso, J.), entered October 13, 2023. The order, among other things, denied the motion of defendants Brookdale Senior Living Communities, Inc. and John E. Shatraw, Jr., doing business as Modern Domains, for summary judgment and denied the motion of third-party defendant for summary judgment.

Now, upon reading and filing the stipulation of discontinuance signed by the attorneys for the parties on October 22, 2024 and January 13, 2025,

It is hereby ordered that said appeals are unanimously dismissed without costs upon stipulation. Present—Smith, J.P., Curran, Montour, Greenwood and Keane, JJ.