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9020-9020A. MICHAEL BORST plfap, v. BOVIS LEND LEASE LMB, INC. def-res, LOWER MANHATTAN DEVELOPMENT CORP., ET AL, def — ALLEN HAY plf-ap, v. BOVIS LEND LEASE LMB, INC. def-res, LOWER MANHATTAN DEVELOPMENT CORP., ET. AL, def — Barasch McGarry Salzman & Penson, New York (Dominique Penson of counsel), for ap — Newman Myers Kreines Gross Harris, P.C., New York (Stephen M. Bigham of counsel), for res — Orders, Supreme Court, New York County (Barbara Jaffe, J.), entered September 8, 2011, which, in these consolidated personal injury actions, denied plaintiffs’ motions for summary judgment as to liability, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiffs failed to make a prima facie showing of entitlement to partial summary judgment as a matter of law. The non-prosecution agreement entered into between the New York County District Attorney’s Office (NYDA) and the Bovis defendants (Bovis) following NYDA’s criminal investigation of the August 18, 2007 fire at the Deutsche Building in lower Manhattan, was correctly deemed inadmissible as proof of liability. The agreement explicitly provided that Bovis had not admitted liability, that the factual statements contained in the agreement were relevant only for the purposes of the compromise between the NYDA and Bovis, and that Bovis could contradict and/or contest any factual statement in the agreement in a subsequent action or proceeding to which the NYDA was not a party (see e.g. Kollmer v. Slater Elec., 122 AD2d 117, 120 [2d Dept 1986]).

 
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