A temporary employment agency can be held liable to the family of prominent Manhattan real estate broker Linda Stein, who was bludgeoned to death by a personal assistant employed by the agency, a judge has ruled.

Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice Lucy Billings denied summary judgment to Axion LLC, the temp agency that employed Natavia Lowery, convicted of second-degree murder in the 2007 slaying of Stein.

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