Matter of Miller v City of New York, 2019 NY Slip Op 00558 [1st Dept. 2019]
Petitioner’s failure to object to the admission of a 2013 stipulation of settlement of a prior investigation waives the issue of admissibility (see Community Counseling & Mediation Servs. v Chera, 115 AD3d 589, 590 [1st Dept 2014]), and in any event, there is no evidence that the arbitrator was influenced by the stipulation in the guilt determination.
Thompson-Shepard v Lido Hall Condominiums, 2019 NY Slip Op 00576 [1st Dept. 2019]
Defendants waived their objection to the admissibility of plaintiff’s expert’s unsworn report by failing to raise it before the motion court (see Shinn v Catanzaro, 1 AD3d 195, 198 [1st Dept 2003]). However, in any event, the report does not raise a triable issue of fact (see Kane, 4 AD3d at 190; Mandel v 370 Lexington Ave., LLC, 32 AD3d 302 [1st Dept 2006]; Silva v 81st St. and Ave. A Corp., 169 AD2d 402, 404 [1st Dept 1991], lv denied 77 NY2d 810 [1991]). Plaintiff attempts to link the expert’s opinion that the staircase contained irregular and excessive riser heights with her testimony that upon arriving at the scene of the accident she saw the decedent’s leg lodged in a riser. However, her after-the-fact observation does not show that the decedent fell because of the purportedly defective riser. Moreover, insofar as the decedent’s hearsay statements cited in the expert’s report can be considered, the decedent did not say that he slipped for reasons related to the risers.
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