Should the plaintiff be permitted to recover under section 240 of the Labor Law when, on the one hand, plaintiff knew that he or she should have used a readily available safety device, but, on the other hand, “everyone” or virtually everyone at the work site was doing the very same thing?

That was the principal issue presented earlier this year in Biaca-Neto v. Boston Road II Housing Development Fund Corporation, 34 NY3d 1166 [2020], mod’g 176 AD3d 1 [1st Dept 2019].

The ‘Gallagher’ Rule