Phyllis Economou v. State

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Phyllis Economou v. State

249 A.D.2d 439, 671 N.Y.S.2d 320, 1998 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 4254

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedApril 20, 1998

StatusPublished

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Phyllis Economou v. State, 249 A.D.2d 439, 671 N.Y.S.2d 320, 1998 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 4254 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1998).

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Opinion

—In a claim to recover damages for personal injuries, the claimants appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims (Ruderman, J.), dated April 7, 1997, which, after a trial on the issue of liability only, dismissed the claim.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

[440]*440It is well settled that the State is not an insurer of the safety of persons using its highways (see, Ventola v New York State Thruway Auth., 142 AD2d 674).

We agree with the Court of Claims that the claimants failed to prove that the absence of the subject sign was a proximate cause of this accident.

The claimants’ remaining contentions are without merit. Ritter, J. P., Sullivan, Krausman and Luciano, JJ., concur.

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