{"id":2468,"date":"2019-08-23T18:18:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T22:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2019-08-23T18:18:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T22:18:29","slug":"new-york-appellate-court-says-fuel-nozzle-manufacturer-and-gas-station-owner-should-have-been-granted-summary-judgment-in-fueling-accident-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/new-york-appellate-court-says-fuel-nozzle-manufacturer-and-gas-station-owner-should-have-been-granted-summary-judgment-in-fueling-accident-case\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Appellate Court Says Fuel Nozzle Manufacturer and Gas Station Owner Should Have Been Granted Summary Judgment in Fueling Accident Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Syracuse personal injury lawsuit may involve one defendant or multiple defendants. Likewise, a single theory of liability may be asserted, or multiple theories may be included in the plaintiff&#8217;s complaint for damages.<\/p>\n<p>The more defendants and the more theories of liability, the more likely it is that some of the claims against the defendant(s) will be dismissed prior to trial. Typically, this is done through the summary judgment process. A party who is aggrieved by a trial court&#8217;s decision on a motion for summary judgment may opt to ask an appellate court to review the matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts of the Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a recently decided appellate court <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/new-york\/appellate-division-fourth-department\/2019\/104-ca-18-00548.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decision<\/a>, the plaintiff was a limousine company employee who was driving a bus made by the defendant bus manufacturer when, in 2012, she stopped at a gas station owned by the defendant gas station owner to refuel. According to the plaintiff, she put the nozzle of the pump into the bus&#8217;s fuel tank, engaged the hold-open clip on the nozzle, and waited while the bus refueled. When fuel began to spill out, she disengaged the clip, stopped the flow of fuel, and waited for the pressure to subside. When she removed the nozzle about 20 or 30 seconds later, fuel ejected from the tank and into her eyes, as well as onto her face and body.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/new-york-appellate-court-says-fuel-nozzle-manufacturer-and-gas-station-owner-should-have-been-granted-summary-judgment-in-fueling-accident-case\/#more-2468\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Syracuse personal injury lawsuit may involve one defendant or multiple defendants. Likewise, a single theory of liability may be asserted, or multiple theories may be included in the plaintiff&#8217;s complaint for damages. The more defendants and the more theories of liability, the more likely it is that some of the claims against the defendant(s) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defective-products","category-premises-liability","category-truck-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New York Appellate Court Says Fuel Nozzle Manufacturer and Gas Station Owner Should Have Been Granted Summary Judgment in Fueling Accident Case &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; August 23, 2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Syracuse personal injury lawsuit may involve one defendant or multiple defendants. 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