Case ID: ad2d_296/html/0847-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

William J. Doyle, Jr., Respondent, v Sithe/Independence Power Partners, L.P., Appellant.
    [744 NYS2d 921]
   Appeal from an order of Supreme Court, Oswego County (McCarthy, J.), entered June 19, 2001, which granted plaintiffs motion for partial summary judgment on liability on the Labor Law § 240 (1) claim.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously modified on the law by vacating that part of the oral decision of May 29, 2001 determining as a matter of law that plaintiff’s psychological injuries were caused by the accident and as modified the order is affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: Plaintiff commenced this action seeking damages for both physical and psychological injuries he allegedly sustained when he fell while descending a ladder. In granting plaintiffs motion for partial summary judgment on liability on the Labor Law § 240 (1) claim, Supreme Court determined both that defendant violated the statute and that as a matter of law both the physical and psychological injuries were caused by the accident. The sole contention of defendant on appeal is that the court erred in determining as a matter of law that plaintiffs psychological injuries were caused by the accident. We agree. Plaintiff did not seek that relief and, even if he had, we agree with defendant that the issue is one of fact for trial (see generally Pola v Nycz, 281 AD2d 839, 840; Murphy v Islat Assoc. Graft Hat Mfg. Co., 264 AD2d 583, 584). The only medical evidence in the record with respect to this issue is an unsworn medical report, which does not constitute proof in admissible form (see Grasso v Angerami, 79 NY2d 813, 814; Doyle v Health Care Plan, 245 AD2d 1018). We therefore modify the order accordingly. Present — Hayes, J.P., Wisner, Kehoe, Gorski and Lawton, JJ.