The temp agency that placed Natavia Lowery as a personal assistant to celebrity real estate agent Linda Stein months before Lowery killed her can’t be held liable for negligence, a Manhattan appeals court said Thursday.
The Appellate Division, First Department, dismissed a lawsuit by Stein’s estate against temp agency Axion “since the evidence demonstrated that Axion had no notice of Lowery’s violent propensities or knowledge of facts that might prompt a reasonably prudent person to conduct an investigation of the worker’s background.”
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