Santangelo v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Where the state is found negligent in failing to prevent the escape of a mental patient having known dangerous propensities and in failing to apprehend him and the negligence is the proximate cause of claimants’ injuries, which occurred dur ing an attempted apprehension and were reasonably foreseeable, the police officers’ claim is dismissed since case law has consistently prohibited recovery by firemen and policemen for injuries sustained as a result of negligence which created the need for the special services for which they are trained under the rationale that sound public policy justifies the denial of double recovery from the public trough in light of the many benefits available to policemen and firemen to compensate them for the hazards they face and under the doctrine of assumption of risk; the Court of Appeals has recently held ... that, even with the enactment of CPLR article 14-a, the assumption of risk doctrine may still act to negate a defendant’s duty in its entirety, serving as a complete bar to recovery....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Alvarado v. United States