Case Title: Holmes v Business Relocation Servs., Inc.

Citation: 2015 NY Slip Op 02557

Docket Number: 

State: new-york

Court: New York Appellate Court

Date: 2015-03-26T00:00:00Z

Document:
Holmes v Business Relocation Servs., Inc.

2015 NY Slip Op 02557

Decided on March 26, 2015

Court of Appeals

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.


Decided on March 26, 2015

No. 99 SSM 9

[*1]Keith Holmes, Respondent,
vBusiness Relocation Services, Inc., Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, United Staffing Systems, Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Respondent.


Submitted by Daniel S. Kotler, for third-party plaintiff-appellant.
Submitted by Blake G. Goldfarb, for respondent.


MEMORANDUM:
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs, and the certified question answered in the affirmative. As a matter of law, it cannot be said that Business [*2]Relocation Services, Inc., the alleged special employer, overcame the presumption of continuing general employment by "clear[ly] demonstrati[ng] . . . surrender of control by the general employer and assumption of control by the special employer" (Thompson v Grumman Aerospace Corp. , 78 NY2d 553, 557 [1991]). The Appellate Division correctly determined that issues of fact remained as to the alleged special employment relationship.
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On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.11 of the Rules, order affirmed, with costs, and certified question answered in the affirmative, in a memorandum. Chief Judge Lippman and Judges Read, Pigott, Rivera, Abdus-Salaam, Stein and Fahey concur.
Decided March 26, 2015