Zurheide v. S-C Associates, LP, S-C

• Decision Date: 02 March 1998
• Docket Number: S-C
• Court: New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division
• Parties: 1998 N.Y. Slip Op. 1890 Peter C. ZURHEIDE, et al., Plaintiffs, v.ASSOCIATES, LP, Defendant Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent, et al., Defendant; AT & T Corp., Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.

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1998 N.Y. Slip Op. 1890

Peter C. ZURHEIDE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. S-C ASSOCIATES, LP, Defendant Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent, et al., Defendant; AT & T Corp., Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Second Department.

March 2, 1998.

Boeggeman, George, Hodges & Corde, P.C., White Plains (Leslie K. Arfine, of counsel), for third-party defendant-appellant.

Brody & Fabiani, New York City (Daniel O. Dietchweiler, of counsel), for defendant third-party plaintiff-respondent.

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the third-party defendant AT & T Corp. appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Silverman, J.), entered May 14, 1997, as denied its cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the third-party complaint.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

Workers' Compensation Law § 11, as amended (L.1996, ch. 635, § 2), is to be applied prospectively and is thus inapplicable here, where the underlying injury occurred before the effective date of the amendment (see, Morales v. Gross, 230 A.D.2d 7, 657 N.Y.S.2d 711; Delacruz v. Wistyn, NYLJ, Nov 3, 1997, at 27, col 6; Seymour v. Victor Balata Belting Co., 174 Misc.2d 677, 665 N.Y.S.2d 1010; see also, Massella v. Partner Indus. Products, --- A.D.2d ----, 665 N.Y.S.2d 948; Doria v. Cooke Properties, --- A.D.2d ----, 664 N.Y.S.2d 798; Majewski v. Broadalbin-Perth Cent. School Dist., 231 A.D.2d 102, 111, 661 N.Y.S.2d 293).

THOMPSON, J.P., and PIZZUTO, JOY and KRAUSMAN, JJ., concur.