August 14, 2024 – M&H Wins Appeal By Overcoming Landowner’s Prima Facie Showing On Out-Of-Poession Landowner Defense

In this action involving a slip and fall that occurred in an icy Nassau County parking lot being utlized as a television-production set, the Appellate Division, Second Department, in accordance with M&H’s arguments on appeal, rejected the landowner’s prima facie showing on its out-of-possession landowner, holding that its agreement with CBS Broadcasting was a mere license, and not a lease.

Russo v. Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation