Case Name: Richard Miroe et al., Respondents, v. Ted Miroe, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant. Newsday, Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2000-03-20
Citations: 270 A.D.2d 400
Docket Number: 
Parties: Richard Miroe et al., Respondents, v Ted Miroe, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant. Newsday, Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 270
Pages: 400–400

Head Matter:
Richard Miroe et al., Respondents, v Ted Miroe, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant. Newsday, Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.
[705 NYS2d 62]

Opinion:
—In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the defendant third-party plaintiff appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (De-Maro, J.), dated April 22, 1999, as denied his cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, and the third-party defendant separately appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of the same order as denied its motion for summary judgment dismissing the third-party complaint.
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with one bill of costs, the motion and cross motion are granted, and the complaint and the third-party complaint are dismissed.
One who ,has received workers' compensation benefits is barred from commencing an action against a fellow employee who was acting within the scope of his or her employment at the time of the injury (see, Workers' Compensation Law § 29 [6]; Maines v Cronomer Val. Fire Dept., 50 NY2d 535, 543). As the defendant was acting within the scope of his employment at the time of the accident (see, Matter of Husted v Seneca Steel Serv., 41 NY2d 140), the plaintiffs' action is barred, and the third-party action for contribution and indemnification becomes academic. In any event, the third-party action should have been dismissed as the injured plaintiff did not suffer a "grave injury" (Workers' Compensation Law § 11). Santucci, J. P., Krausman, Florio and Schmidt, JJ., concur.