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Paterra v Arc Dev. LLC (2016 NY Slip Op 00896)

Paterra v Arc Dev. LLC

2016 NY Slip Op 00896

Decided on February 9, 2016

Appellate Division, First Department

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 February 9, 2016

Friedman, J.P., Acosta, Andrias, Saxe, Feinman, JJ.

173 303716/10

[*1]Dennis Paterra, Plaintiff-Appellant,
vArc Development LLC, et al., Defendants-Respondents.

Paul G. Vesnaver PLLC, Rockville Centre (Brian D. Primes of counsel), for appellant.
McGaw, Alventose & Zajac, Jericho (Ross P. Masler of counsel), for respondents.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lucindo Suarez, J.), entered on or about September 8, 2014, which granted defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and denied plaintiff's cross motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability on his Labor Law §§ 241(6) and 200 and common-law negligence claims as against defendants Arc Development LLC and Riverdale Heights LLC, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Defendants were entitled to dismissal of all of plaintiff's Labor Law claims, since plaintiff asserted the Labor Law claims for the first time in his bill of particulars, and failed to allege them in his complaint (see Castleton v Broadway Mall Props., Inc., 41 AD3d 410, 411 [2d Dept 2007]; Webster v Supermarkets Gen. Corp., 209 AD2d 405 [2d Dept 1994]). The purpose of the bill of particulars is to amplify the pleadings (see Kolb v Beechwood Sedgewick LLC, 78 AD3d 481, 482 [1st Dept 2010]), and "may not be used to supply allegations essential to a cause of action that was not pleaded in the complaint" (Alami v 215 E. 68th St., L.P., 88 AD3d 924, 926 [2d Dept 2011]). Nor may the bill of particulars "add or substitute a new theory or cause of action" (Melino v Tougher Heating & Plumbing Co., 23 AD2d 616, 617 [3d Dept 1965]).
Plaintiff's common-law negligence claim, which was pleaded in the complaint, was properly dismissed. There is no evidence that defendants supervised or controlled plaintiff's work or had actual or constructive notice of the alleged defective condition over which plaintiff [*2]tripped (see Rajkumar v Budd Contr. Corp., 77 AD3d 595, 596 [1st Dept 2010]).
We have considered plaintiff's remaining contentions and find them unavailing.
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER
OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.
ENTERED: FEBRUARY 9, 2016
CLERK