Robins v Sheepshead Bay-West Condo Assn.

Robins v Sheepshead Bay-West Condo Assn. 2007 NY Slip Op 10133 [46 AD3d 794] December 18, 2007 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Seth Robins, Respondent,
v
Sheepshead Bay-West Condo Association, Appellant.

—[*1] Richard T. Lau & Associates, Jericho, N.Y. (Nancy S. Goodman of counsel), for appellant.

Bender, Crawford & Bender, LLP, Buffalo, N.Y. (Robert A. Crawford, Jr., of counsel), for respondent.

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Francois Rivera, J.), dated February 9, 2007, which denied its motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The defendant failed to establish its entitlement to judgment as a matter of law. Its failure to satisfy its initial burden requires denial of the motion, regardless of the sufficiency of plaintiff's opposing papers (see Winegrad v New York Univ. Med. Ctr., 64 NY2d 851, 853 [1985]). Santucci, J.P., Skelos, Lifson and Carni, JJ., concur.