Practice point: If the company agrees to maintain the elevator in safe operating condition, it may be liable to a passenger for failure to correct conditions of which it has knowledge or failure to use reasonable care to discover and correct a condition that it should have found. In addition, a party who enters into a contract to render services may be said to have assumed a duty of care, and, where the contracting party has entirely displaced the other party's duty of safe maintenance, may be liable in tort to third persons.
Case: Fajardo v. Mainco El. & Elec. Corp., NY Slip Op 06678 (2d Dep't October 12, 2016)
Here is the decision.
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