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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Frederick Naclerio et al., Plaintiffs, v C.R. Klewin, Inc., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant. James Lyons, Doing Business as General Contracting, et al., Third-Party Defendants. Kendland Company, Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Respondent.
    [740 NYS2d 237]
   In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the defendant third-party plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Orange County (McGuirk, J.), dated April 19, 2001, which, inter alia, granted that branch of the motion of the third-party defendant Kendland Company, Inc., which was for summary judgment dismissing the third-party complaint insofar as asserted against it.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The Supreme Court properly granted that branch of the motion of the respondent, a subcontractor, which was for summary judgment dismissing the appellant general contractor’s third-party cause of action for contractual indemnification. The indemnification clause is triggered only in the event of a finding of negligence on the part of the subcontractor or its agents or employees. There is no basis in the record to find such negligence, as a matter of law.

The appellant’s remaining contentions are without merit. Altman, J.P., Florio, H. Miller and Cozier, JJ., concur.