Covert, Pets v. 2021 Legislative Reapp Comm

How courts have described this case

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• affirming that duty is an essential element of a negligence claim under Massachusetts law
• rejecting plaintiff’s claim under § 51 not because violation was unrelated to fire safety but for fact-based reason that violation did not cause plaintiff’s injuries
• upholding summary judgment for defendant homeowner where plaintiffs offered no evidence as to why scaffolding collapsed and could therefore provide no causal link between their injuries and the homeowner’s duty
• summary judgment proper when workers injured in scaffolding accident could present no evidence as to reason for collapse
• defendant entitled to summary judgment where \plaintiffs failed to proffer any evidence ... establish[ing] any causal link between their injuries and the defendant's breach of any duty to them\
• plaintiffs theorized that if owner had obtained a required work permit, this would have prompted an inspection, detection, and correction of a defect in scaffolding; SJC holds that “(t]his conjecture is . . . insufficient to defeat summary judgment”

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