Pinkhasov v Weaver
2008 NY Slip Op 09902 [57 AD3d 334]
December 18, 2008
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, February 11, 2009


Yasha Pinkhasov, Appellant,
v
Junior Weaver et al., Respondents, et al., Defendant.

[*1] Goidel & Siegel, LLP, New York (Steven E. Cohen of counsel), for appellant.

Baker, McEvoy, Morrissey & Moskovits, P.C., New York (Holly E. Peck of counsel), for respondents.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Deborah A. Kaplan, J.), entered October 24, 2007, which granted defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury as defined by Insurance Law § 5102 (d), unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendants established a prima facie entitlement to summary judgment by submitting the affirmed reports of a neurologist and orthopedist, which were in compliance with CPLR 2106 (cf. Offman v Singh, 27 AD3d 284 [2006]). The doctors reviewed plaintiff's medical records, examined him and performed detailed and objective tests before concluding that plaintiff had full range of motion in his cervical and lumbar spine. Defendants also submitted plaintiff's deposition testimony in which he stated that he was only confined to bed for three to four days following the accident (see Copeland v Kasalica, 6 AD3d 253 [2004]).

In opposition, plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact as to whether he sustained a serious injury. Plaintiff's unsworn MRI reports were properly not considered by the motion court (see Grasso v Angerami, 79 NY2d 813 [1991]), and the affirmation of plaintiff's medical expert failed to provide objective medical proof to support plaintiff's claim of permanent injury. Although plaintiff's expert stated that plaintiff had decreased range of motion in his cervical and lumbar spines, he failed to detail with any specificity these limitations (see Rodriguez v Abdallah, 51 AD3d 590, 592 [2008]; Vasquez v Reluzco, 28 AD3d 365, 366 [2006]).

Furthermore, as noted, plaintiff was only confined to bed for three to four days after the accident, and absent objective medical evidence, his subjective statements that he was unable to perform his usual and customary daily activities during the statutorily relevant time period, is insufficient to establish a serious injury under the 90/180 prong of Insurance Law § 5102 (d) (see Nelson v Distant, 308 AD2d 338, 340 [2003]). [*2]

We have considered plaintiff's remaining arguments and find them unavailing. Concur—Lippman, P.J., Tom, Buckley, Moskowitz and Renwick, JJ. [See 2007 NY Slip Op 33457(U).]