Comes v. New York State Electric & Gas Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding no liability under common law or Labor Law § 200 in absence of evidence of supervision or control
• upholding dismissal of § 200 claim despite the presence of defendant’s inspector at job site, because “there [wa]s no evidence that defendant exercised supervisory control or had any input into how the steel beam [that caused plaintiffs injury] was moved”
• owner of premises not liable for actions of contractor, if owner exercises no supervisory control over operation
• claim pursuant to Section ,241(6) properly dismissed where plaintiffs alleged “only violations of general safety standards of the Industrial Code, not concrete specifications imposing a duty on defendant”
• “[a]n action premised on Labor Law § 200 is premised on negligence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).